The Divine Michelangelo: In Search of Beauty and the Sublime
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), born in the Italian town of Caprese (Tuscany), was a tormented and God-fearing Renaissance man with prodigious talent. His many achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and religiosity in visionary works of art that forever changed the history of art. The famous biographer Giorgio Vasari placed him at the pinnacle of the Renaissance. His contemporaries simply called him the divine (the divine).
This book provides a detailed introduction to Michelangelo and all his formidable masterpieces, without queues or crowds. Through magnificent illustrations and accessible texts, we explore the artist's extraordinary figuration and his famous style of the terribilità (transcendental grandeur), which allowed the representation of human and biblical drama with irresistible scale and fervor. With a journey through the centers of power in Renaissance Italy, We analyzed their main commissions and his exceptional ability to create spatial compositions, whether in the famous Medici library in Florence or in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, whose vault and back wall display the artist's extraordinary frescoes (1508-1512) .
From the formidable David to the heartbreaking pain and the faith of Piety, or the vivid drama of Final Judgment From the Sistine Chapel, this book constitutes a brief but rigorous introduction to a true giant of art history. some of the most famous works of art in the world.
Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.63 kg, 96 pages
