The Treasures of Michelangelo
Author | : William E. Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9781741730623 |
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Author | : William E. Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9781741730623 |
Author | : William E. Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780233002538 |
Michelangelo is universally recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his life-which spanned the Italian Renaissance to the first stirrings of the Counter-Reformation-continues to be obscured in myth. "The Treasures of Michelangelo" presents an original overview of the famed artist, drawing from his numerous poems, artwork, and letters. The wealth of information presented here offers a fresh perspective on his life and his relationships. Augmented by facsimiles of 15 documents from his personal papers and other archives, this beautiful package paints a vivid portrait of an exceptional yet deeply human individual and the remarkable times in which he lived.
Author | : Pina Ragionieri |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The family home of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Casa Buonarroti boasts the world's largest collection of Michelangelo's drawings and personal papers. Now a private foundation and museum, the Casa Buonarroti is also well known for art and antiquities collected by Michelangelo's family members. This volume includes drawings usually kept in storage to protect them from damage to damaging light and air, among them sketches and preparatory studies for such important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici tombs. It provides a view of Michelangelo through personal sketches, writings and studies from his notebooks, as well as insights into his family through painting, sculpture and graphic works.
Author | : Leo Steinberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-11-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022648257X |
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His works, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo’s most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking. Almost everything Steinberg wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but here put to the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures as well as their gestures and interrelations conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers—or, as Steinberg put it, in Michelangelo’s art, “anatomy becomes theology.” Michelangelo’s Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg’s selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz. The volume also includes a book review debunking psychoanalytic interpretation of the master’s work, a light-hearted look at Michelangelo and the medical profession and, finally, the shortest piece Steinberg ever published.
Author | : Ross King |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 163286195X |
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Despite having completed his masterful statue David four years earlier, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with challenging curved surfaces such as the Sistine ceiling's vaults. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant: He stormed away from Rome, incurring Julius's wrath, before he was eventually persuaded to begin. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the fascinating story of the four extraordinary years he spent laboring over the twelve thousand square feet of the vast ceiling, while war and the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. A panorama of illustrious figures intersected during this time-the brilliant young painter Raphael, with whom Michelangelo formed a rivalry; the fiery preacher Girolamo Savonarola and the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus; a youthful Martin Luther, who made his only trip to Rome at this time and was disgusted by the corruption all around him. Ross King blends these figures into a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Italy, while also offering uncommon insight into the connection between art and history.
Author | : William E. Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780233005638 |
Vivid images of the painter's work are accompanied by illuminating and detailed text written by William E. Wallace, the world-leading expert on Michelangelo.
Author | : Benjamin Blech |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061469041 |
Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage "fellow travelers" to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time. "Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language."—from the Preface Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
Author | : Trewin Copplestone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9781840135268 |
Author | : Pina Ragionieri |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art, Italian |
ISBN | : 9780932216656 |
Author | : Tatiana Bissolati |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
?Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures. Executed in c. 1533, The Dream exemplifies Michelangelos unrivalled skill as draughtsman. Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld in 2010, this catalogue examines this celebrated work in the context of a group of closely related drawings by Michelangelo, as well as some of his original letters and poems and works by his contemporaries.