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The drawings featured in this volume are from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Eighteen sheets are supreme examples of Michelangelo's draftsmanship; fifty are by his contemporaries and successors - including Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Perino del Vaga, Pordenone, and Annibale Carracci - and demonstrate Michelangelo's impact on their technique, style, and imagery. Among the other artists represented are Alessandro Allori, Bartolommeo Ammanati, Baccio. Bandinelli, Agnolo Bronzino, Bernardino Cesari, Giulio Clovio, Giovan Ambrogio Figino, Battista Franco, Antonio Mini, Girolamo Muziano, Battista Naldini, Bartolomeo Passarotti, Camillo Procaccini, Biagio Pupini, Raffaello da Montelupo, Giulio Romano, Francesco Salviati, Orazio Samacchini, Pellegrino Tibaldi, and Federico and Taddeo Zuccaro.