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The Lost Michelangelos (Hardcover)
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The Lost Michelangelos (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
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Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of
a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great
Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic
loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio
Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer -
stumbled across some unpublished letters among the papers of
Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabella d Este and an extremely
important figure in the Italian Renaissance. These letters comment
on the paintings of Michelangelo in a way that is completely at
odds with what was to become the dominant critical tradition of
Michelangelo scholarship, an inconsistency that set Forcellino off
on a journey that took him to Dubrovnik, Oxford, New York and
Niagara Falls and culminated in the discovery of two magnificent
paintings: Pieta with Mary and Two Angels, now in a private
collection in America, and Cavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an
educational institution in England. Through a combination of
careful historical research, extensive restoration and meticulous
radiographic analysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these
paintings can be traced back to the studio of Michelangelo. This
extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into question the
received view of Michelangelo s work and fills in a missing piece
in our understanding of one of the greatest artists of all time.
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