Michelangelo - Gilles Neret

Michelangelo

Gilles Neret

Ürün Tanıtımı

Italian-born Michelangelo di LodovicoBuonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, andGod-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture,architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God intovisionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographerGiorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. Hispeers called him simply 'Il Divino' ('the divine one').

This book provides the essential introductionto Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queuesand crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore theartist's extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilita(momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist incompelling scale and fervor. Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, wetake in his major commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositionalschemes, whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary500-square-meter ceiling (1508-1512) in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

From the towering David to the aching grief andfaith of The Pieta and the vivid drama of the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment,this is a succinct, dependable reference to a true giant of art history and tosome of the most famous artworks in the world.

Özellikler

Basım Dili: İngilizce

Sayfa Sayısı: 96

En / Boy: 21.00 / 26.00 cm

Kağıt Cinsi: 2. Hamur

Basım Tarihi: 2019