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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo. The Graphic Work
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Delight in page after page of Michelangelo’s graphic brilliance. From architectural structures to anatomically perfect figures, this fresh edition intersperses some of the artist’s finest drawings with his own notes and revisions, offering spine-tingling proximity to the process of his genius.
Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.12 kg, 736 pages
“Detailed, well-researched, and beautifully constructed.”
Michelangelo. The Graphic Work
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Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawings
Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The nickname il divino (“the divine one”) has been applied to him since the 1530s right through to today: his achievements as a sculptor, painter, and architect remain unparalleled and his creations are among the best-known artworks in the world.
This Bibliotheca Universalis edition is devoted to the artist’s graphic work, a testimony to his masterly command of line, form, and detail, from architectural studies to anatomically perfect figures. The book brings together some of the artist’s finest drawings from museums and collections around the world as well as some of his own notes and revisions, offering stunning proximity not only to the ambition and scope of Michelangelo’s practice but also his working process. A chapter with a compilation of newly attributed and reattributed drawings provides further insights into Michelangelo’s varied graphic oeuvre and the ongoing exploration of his genius.
This Bibliotheca Universalis edition is devoted to the artist’s graphic work, a testimony to his masterly command of line, form, and detail, from architectural studies to anatomically perfect figures. The book brings together some of the artist’s finest drawings from museums and collections around the world as well as some of his own notes and revisions, offering stunning proximity not only to the ambition and scope of Michelangelo’s practice but also his working process. A chapter with a compilation of newly attributed and reattributed drawings provides further insights into Michelangelo’s varied graphic oeuvre and the ongoing exploration of his genius.
The author
Thomas Pöpper wrote his doctoral thesis on 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture (2003). After a fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, he worked as a volunteer for the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen. Following further appointments at universities in Hamburg und Leipzig, since 2008 he has been Professor of Art and Design History at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau, where he is currently Head of the Faculty of Applied Art. Pöpper has published on a variety of aspects of Italian art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, German painting of the Early Modern era and German sculpture of the 19th and 20th century.
Michelangelo. The Graphic Work
Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.12 kg, 736 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-3717-9
Edition: GermanISBN 978-3-8365-3718-6
Edition: FrenchISBN 978-3-8365-3719-3
Edition: EnglishISBN 978-3-8365-6378-9
Edition: SpanishISBN 978-3-8365-6379-6
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Michalengelo. The Graphic Work
January 29, 2022
Es un libro fantastico para aprender a través del dibujo de Miguel Ángel, addmás la calidad/precio inigualable.