Author: Carmen C. Bambach Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588396371 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 395
Book Description
Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486238768 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 50
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Throughout his long life, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475?1564) never ceased to practice drawing with pen, pencil, or chalk. In the 60 years of creative activity encompassed by this volume, the artist produced scores of sketches, drawings, and studies ? nudes, heads, figure studies, Madonnas, anatomical drawings, studies of children and animals, mythical representations, and religious works. This book reproduces 46 of his finest drawings, embodying most of his artistic themes and techniques, and executed in his characteristic media of pen and ink, and red and black chalk. The extraordinary strength, grace, and clarity of his renderings are beautifully illustrated on every page. The compositions, carefully reproduced on fine-quality paper, range from youthful studies modeled after ancient sculpture and early Renaissance frescoes to the otherworldly religious creations of his old age. Many are preliminary drawings executed in connection with some of his most important commissions: the marble David of 1501?04; the famous cartoon of 1504 for the projected fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, The Battle of Cascina; the paintings on the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, executed 1508?12; and the imposing fresco of The Last Judgment in the same chapel, executed 1535?14; as well as several of the more highly finished allegorical presentation drawings of the early 1530s. In some cases, e.g. The Battle of Cascina, the drawings are all that remain of a lost masterpiece. All drawings are accompanied by brief descriptive captions including date, medium, size, and current location.
Author: Cammy Brothers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 302
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By following steps by which Michelangelo arrived at his inventions, the author questions conventional notions of spotaneity as a function of genius. Rather, she explores the idea of drawing as a mode of thinking, using its evidence to reconstruct the process by which Michelangelo arrived at new ideas.
Author: Paul Joannides Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
The drawings featured in this volume are from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Eighteen sheets are supreme examples of Michelangelo's draftsmanship; fifty are by his contemporaries and successors - including Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Perino del Vaga, Pordenone, and Annibale Carracci - and demonstrate Michelangelo's impact on their technique, style, and imagery. Among the other artists represented are Alessandro Allori, Bartolommeo Ammanati, Baccio.
Author: Emily J. Peters Publisher: ISBN: 9780300246865 Category : Drawing Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Michelangelo: Mind of the Master will be published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 09/22/2019 to 01/05/2020 and the J. Paul Getty Museum from 02/25 to 06/07/2019. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Teylers Museum and features works from its collection"--
Author: Bridget Riley Publisher: ISBN: 9780500292785 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
A show touring US museums examines the process and practice of drawing, showcasing over 500 years of work from Michelangelo to the present day
Author: Oliver Tostmann Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museu ISBN: 9781907372704 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Accompanies the exhibition Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors Drawings From Renaissance Italy curated by Oliver Tostmann and Michael W. Cole at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 23 October 2014-23 January 2015"--from title page verso.