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Becoming Michelangelo - Apprenticing to the Master and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings (Paperback)
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Becoming Michelangelo - Apprenticing to the Master and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings (Paperback)
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Loot Price R324
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Michelangelo's genius is revealed as never before by the man who
became Michelangelo's last apprentice- an American artist and art
historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore. Many believe
Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of
"divine" genius-a myth that Michelangelo himself promoted by way of
cementing his legacy. But the young Michelangelo studied his craft
like any Renaissance apprentice, learning from a master, copying,
and experimenting with materials and styles. In this extraordinary
book, Alan Pascuzzi recounts the young Michelangelo's journey from
student to master, using the artist's drawings to chart his
progress and offering unique insight into the true nature of his
mastery. Pascuzzi himself is a practicing artist in Florence,
Michelangelo's city. When he was a grad student in art history, he
won a Fulbright to "apprentice" himself to Michelangelo: to study
his extant drawings and copy them to discern his progression in
technique, composition, and mastery of anatomy. Pascuzzi also
relied on the Renaissance treatise that "Il Divino" himself would
have been familiar with, Cennino Cennini's The Craftsman's Handbook
(1399), which was available to apprentices as a kind of textbook of
the period. Pascuzzi's narrative traces Michelangelo's development
as an artist during the period from roughly 1485, the start of his
apprenticeship, to his completion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in
1512. Analyzing Michelangelo's burgeoning abilities through copies
he himself executed in museums and galleries in Florence and
elsewhere around the world, Pascuzzi unlocks the transformation
that made Michelangelo great. At the same time, he narrates his own
transformation from student to artist as Michelangelo's last
apprentice.
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