Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel - Hardcover

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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9780297853657: Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297853651 ISBN 13: 9780297853657

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008

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Physical description; xv, 207 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-195) and index. Subjects; Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 - Criticism and interpretation. Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City).

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About the Author:

Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of our leading art critics and presenters of arts television. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. Since 2006, he has also been the face of the visual arts on BBC2's The Culture Show. For more than twenty years he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and, more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph (including the popular weekly column 'In the Picture'). He has written a number of acclaimed books, on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present. He has won numerous awards for writing and broadcasting, including the Arts Journalist of the Year Award three years in a row and the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. He is married with three children and lives in London.

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"unravels the aesthetic originality behind... familiar figures." OBSERVER "an engaging and accessible introduction... the way he sets out this historical context, establishing for his readers the ongoing economic, social and political events that did so much to shape the building of the city and therefore the creation of a masterpiece... a model of understated scholarship packed into a convenient size - physically as well as intellectually - with good colour photography and all at a very reasonable price: what more can the general reader hope for." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "an excellent introduction to the Sistine Chapel... Time and again while reading this book I found myself looking with fresh eyes at a detail of the ceiling, prompted by an arresting phrase or astute observation... This is art history at its best: clear, exciting, well-informed." -- CRAIG BROWN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK MAIL ON SUNDAY "shows the best of what Graham-Dixon brings to his art criticism: an easy facility to convey the complex in lucid, simple terms." -- SERENA DAVIES DAILY TELEGRAPH "From first to last, it is crisply written in a prose which is both brisk and shapely... such a user guide to the brilliant particularities of the Sistine Chapel, aimed at the intelligent general reader, fills a gap in the market." RA MAGAZINE "Andrew Graham Dixon penetrates the many layers of meaning surrounding Michelangelo's rich images and allows us to glimpse something of the visions perceived by the artist himself. But more than this, he reveals Michelangelo the man - an achievement which ultimately proves even more rewarding." YORKSHIRE EVENING POST

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