Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master (Paperback) /anglais - Softcover

CHAPMAN HUGO

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714126489 ISBN 13: 9780714126487

Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM, 2006

Synopsis

Michelangelo was one of the most creative and admired artists of the Italian Renaissance, famous for his work as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet. But his genius can only truly be appreciated outside Italy through his work as a draughtsman. This book, written to accompany a major exhibition, combines the finest works from three outstanding collections of his drawings in the British Museum, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, to tell the story of Michelangelo's extraordinarily long and active life. An introductory chapter discusses Michelangelo's contemporary fame, his training and choices of drawing technique, and the role of drawing in the genesis of his works. The following chapters move chronologically through the important projects that dominated his long career.

About this title

About the Author:

Hugo Chapman is associate keeper of prints and drawings at The British Museum.

Review:

“A must-purchase. . . . Handsomely illustrated and enlightening. . . . A fascinating history of the fate of the artist’s drawings after his death”
(Dave Gagon Deseret Morning News )

“The catalog . . . is really an artistic biography told through the drawings, but with several informative sidelights....”—Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Review of Books
(Ingrid D. Rowland New York Review of Books )

About this edition

• Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0714126489
• ISBN 13: 9780714126487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320