Michelangelo: His Life and Works
Discusses the style and technique of the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Beginning with portraits of the artist, examples of his literary works, editions of his poetry, and modern music inspired by his sonnets, the book then shows representative examples of his work as engineer, architect, anatomist, painter, ...
A selection of Michelangelo's sketches are collected in this work along with a chronology of his life and a scholarly essay by Paul Joannides. Each reproduction is accompanied by details...
Readers discover the story of Michelangelo Buonarroti, a man who sculpted with materials others abandoned, whose first official piece of art was really a fraud, and who hid his own likeness in many of his paintings.
Originally published in 1995 and now available in paperback, a biography of Michelangelo Buonarotti which looks at his career as a sculptor, architect, painter, poet and writer in the context of Renaissance Italy.
Antonio Forcellino is one of the world’s leading authorities on Michelangelo and an expert art historian and restorer. He has been involved in the restoration of numerous masterpieces, including Michelangelo’s Moses.
This is a beautifully designed monograph on the architectural works of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and the only hardcover illustrated book in print in English on the subject.
Readers discover the story of Michelangelo Buonarroti, a man who sculpted with materials others abandoned, whose first official piece of art was really a fraud, and who hid his own likeness in many of his paintings.
Designed to reinforce literacy skills and arts knowledge with easy to follow activities.
The restoration of Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel is perhaps the most controversial event in the art world in the past three decades. Now, after nearly fifteen...
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Demonstrates the master's system of fashioning the human body.
This book reveals his masterpieces including the David of the Accademia in Florence, the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and many architectural gems, including the Laurentian library at San Lorenzo and St Peter's dome in Rome.
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1955 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
This is a superb collection - 160 pages of exquisitely printed photographs by a master photographer of what are probably the most famous sculptures in the world, endlessly copied and universally recognized - Michelangelo's two seated Medici ...