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Michelangelo (Hardcover)
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Michelangelo (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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List price R467
Loot Price R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
You Save R128 (27%)
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Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance
man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture,
architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and
God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever.
Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of
Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply "Il Divino"
("the divine one"). This book provides the essential introduction
to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of
the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible
texts, we explore the artist's extraordinary figuration and
celebrated style of terribilita (momentous grandeur), which allowed
human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor.
Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, we take in his major
commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositional schemes,
whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary
500-square-meter ceiling (1508-1512) in the Vatican's Sistine
Chapel. From the towering David to the aching grief and faith 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 to some of the most famous artworks in the
world. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has
evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed
chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist,
covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise
biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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