An edition of Michelangelo (1901)
Michelangelo
a record of his life as told in his own letters and papers
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Publish Date
1913
Publisher
Constable & Co. ltd.
Language
eng
Pages
91
Description:
First published in 1953, this book remains a classic piece of literature on the work and life of Michelangelo (1475-1564). It continues to be the only volume to contain illustrations of all his paintings, sculpture and architecture. The book is designed to serve both the student and the art lover: the fine quality reproductions emphatically illustrate Michelangelo's genius, while the text surveys the ideas and theses of the world's leading scholars on the painting, sculpture and architecture of Michelangelo and provides a detailed and sophisticated commentary with extensive bibliographical notes. The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides an invaluable record of their condition before the recent controversial cleaning, while ten colour plates show some of the paintings in their restored state, offering the works to the reader's eye for close discrimination.
subjects: Art, Artistic Anatomy, Artists, Artists' preparatory studies, Autographs, Bibliography, Biography, Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City), Casa Buonarroti (Florence, Italy), Catalogs, Chronology, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Miniature books, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Renaissance Art, San Lorenzo (Church : Florence, Italy), San Lorenzo (Church : Florence, Italy). Sagrestia nuova, Sistine Chapel (Vatican Palace, Vatican City), Vatican. Capella paolina, Vatican, Painters, Michelangelo buonarroti, 1475-1564, Art, italian, Art, catalogs, Sculpture, Renaissance Painting