MICHELANGELO'S DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAITS

Edith Balas

ISBN 10: 0887484174 / ISBN 13: 9780887484179

Published by Carnegie Mellon, USA, 2004

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PUBLISHER: Carnegie Mellon University Press DATE/EDITION: 2004, First Edition (1-10). Gift inscription on the title page signed with what I believe is just the authors first name BINDING: Hardbound in tan cloth with silver decoration on the front cover and lettering on the spine, 8 1/2" x 11", 96 pages. DUST JACKET: The jacket is in near fine condition, very clean with no wrinkles, rips or chips. BOOK CONDITION: The book is also near fine, very clean an tight inside and out. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated. Seller Inventory # 003973

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Title: MICHELANGELO'S DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAITS

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon, USA

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

For many years scholars have been aware that Michelangelo included his own image in his art. In this study, Edith Balas discusses two previously unrecognized double self-portraits. The earliest of these, a statue known as the Victory, was a private project in which an aging Michelangelo of depicted himself surmounted by an idealized alter ego, a figure associated with his younger self, his beloved friend Tommaso Cavalieri, and the David and Goliath theme that preoccupied him through much of his career. In the second of these double self-portraits, The Conversion of Paul in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican, the artist, again portraying himself in youth and old age, used a central event in sacred history to make a statement about his own spiritual transformation from Neoplatonist "paganism" to a more orthodox form of Christian piety. Dr. Balas carefully explores the meaning of both works with reference to Michelangelo's life, art and poetry, and reveals them to be among the profoundest autobiographical statements in the history of Western art.

About the Author:

EDITH BALAS has been Professor of Art History at Carnegie Mellon University for the past twenty-seven years, as well as Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to more than twenty articles in American and European journals, her publications include Brancusi and the Romanian Folk Tradition (East European Monographs, 1987; also available in Romanian translation), Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (American Philosophical Society, 1995), Joseph Csáky, a Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (American Philosophical Society, 1998), The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), The Early Work of Henry Koerner (Frick Art & Historical Center 2003). Dr. Balas has curated a number of exhibitions at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, and the Frick Art & Historical Center.