Full Description
This beautiful book in the "500" series celebrates the extraordinary talent of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, arguably the most renowned artist of the Italian Renaissance. 500 years ago, he was 46 years old. He had already completed the Statue of David, the Doni Tondo, the Vatican Pietà, and the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He would later paint the Last Judgement, the frescoes of the Pauline Chapel, and complete the Tomb of Julius II.
This book celebrates his magisterial accomplishments throughout his lifetime, and includes his less celebrated works, architectural projects, lost works, and attributions.
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
Introduction
MICHELANGELO THE SCULPTOR
The First Works of Casa Buonarroti
The Wooden Crucifix for the Priore
The Ark of Saint Dominic
The Upset in Rome
The Only Signed Masterpiece
The Giant for the Signoria
A Virgin with Child to be exported
Two Madonnas in the Tondo
A Forty-Year-Long "Tragedy"
A Sculpture made in Miniature and a Fine Copy
Hercules and the Adolescent
The Medici Tombs in San Lorenzo
The "Political" Statues in the Bargello Museum
Extreme Meditations in Sculpture
Attributed and Lost Sculptures
MICHELANGELO THE PAINTER
Drawings by the "Old Masters"
Half of Michelangelo at the National Gallery in London
The Dismembered and Lost Cartoon
A Pictorial Unicum at the Uffizi Gallery
The Masterpiece
The Scandalous Painting Condemned to the Stake
Pontormo as Translator of Buonarroti
To the Aid of Friends
The Memorable Return to the Sistine Chapel
Signed Gifts
The Last Pictorial Enterprise
Paintings and Drawings Attributed and Lost
MICHELANGELO THE ARCHITECT
Architect in Florence
Architect in Rome
Life in brief
Bibliographical Indications
