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Author : John Scandrett Harford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:305769177
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112112402059
Author : Richard Duppa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433047987460
Author : Charles Heath Wilson
Publisher : London, J. Murray
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082337613
Author : John Scandrett Harford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001983789
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Artists
ISBN : YALE:39002028684992
Author : David Hemsoll
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065655
The fame and influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) were as immediate as they were unprecedented. It is not surprising, therefore, that he was the only living artist Giorgio Vasari included in the first edition of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550. Revised and expanded in 1568, Vasari’s monumental work comprises more than two hundred biographies; for centuries it has been recognized as a seminal text in art history and one of the most important sources on the Italian Renaissance. Vasari’s biography of Michelangelo, the longest in his Lives, presents Michelangelo’s oeuvre as the culminating achievement of Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. He tells the grand story of the artist’s expansive career, profiling his working habits; describing the creation of countless masterpieces, from the David to the Sistine Chapel ceiling; and illuminating his relationships with popes and other illustrious patrons. A lifelong friend, Vasari also quotes generously from the correspondence between the two men; the narrative is further enhanced by an abundance of colorful anecdotes. The volume’s forty-two illustrations convey the range and richness of Michelangelo’s art. An introduction by the scholar David Hemsoll traces the textual development of Vasari’s Lives and situates his biography of Michelangelo in the broader context of Renaissance art history.
Author : Charles Christopher Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044033337148
Author : Herman Friedrich Grimm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000772067
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Arts
ISBN : OCLC:1000338723
This two volume book on the life of Michelangelo was written by English poet and writer John Addington Symonds.
Author : Charles Christopher Black
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385368552
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812236114
The artistic genius of Michelangelo (1475-1564) is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pietà at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works of art in the world. Michelangelo's life has been the subject of many biographies over the centuries, but it was not until the appearance of John Addington Symonds's The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, in 1893, that a biographer had complete access to the artist's family archives. The Buonarroti archives were to be available to the public with the passing of the last family member, but even when that event occurred, in 1858, material from the archives remained closely guarded and only fragments emerged through the hands of family friends. The Italian government, predisposed to Symonds for his impeccable scholarship of Renaissance art, gave Symonds full access to the Buonarroti archives in the 1880s, the first independent scholar so honored. With the ability to consult the massive amount of material in the archives, Symonds produced the first documented, and considered by many still to be the best, biography of Michelangelo. Symonds's expertise as a historian and critic gives added depth to this biography, and it is here that the public first learned that translations of Michelangelo's poetry had been altered to opaque the artist's sexuality. Yet this great work, the last of Symonds's life, has largely been forgotten by students of Michelangelo. In this new edition, the first in more than fifty years, preeminent art historian Creighton E. Gilbert reintroduces Symonds's masterful study of Michelangelo to a new audience through a discussion of the historical context in which the biography appeared, a biographical sketch of Symonds, an openly gay man who worked rigorously to evaluate and promote the contributions of gay artists and scholars to mainstream life, and concludes with an appreciation of The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, for its scholarly and literary merits, as an account of the most brilliant painter and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance.
Author : Miles J. Unger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451678802
This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: “The one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turf” (The Dallas Morning News). Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse. Michelangelo was ambitious, egotistical, and difficult, but through the towering force of genius and through sheer pugnaciousness, he transformed the way we think about art. Miles Unger narrates the life of this tormented genius through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the Pietà carved by a brash young man of twenty-four, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man weighed down by the unimaginable suffering he had witnessed. In the gargantuan David he depicts Man in the glory of his youth, while in the tombs he carved for his Medici overlords he offers perhaps history’s most sustained meditation on death and the afterlife of the soul. In the vast expanse of the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of Creation. During the final decades of his life, his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel, he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peter’s in a final tribute to his God. “A deeply human tribute to one of the most accomplished and fascinating figures inthe history of Western culture” (The Boston Globe), Michelangelo brings to life the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after five hundred years.
Author : Pina Ragionieri
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812220544
This exhibition catalog explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art, and reputation. Beginning with portraits of the artist, examples of his literary works, editions of his poetry, and modern music inspired by his sonnets, the book then shows representative examples of his work as engineer, architect, anatomist, painter, and sculptor.
Author : Romain Rolland
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In the National Museum in Florence is a marble statue which Michael Angelo called " The Victor." It represents the beautiful nude figure of a yoimg man, with curly hair over a low forehead. Standing erect, he has placed his knee on the back of a bearded prisoner, who bends and, hke an ox, stretches his head forward. But the victor looks not upon him. When about to strike he stays his hand, and turns away his sad mouth and irresolute eyes. His arm falls back towards his shoulder. He throws himself backwards. A desire for victory no longer fills his heart — it is repulsive to him. Though he has conquered, he in turn is vanquished.
