Description
Before attaining the gentle age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, of essentially the most well-known sculptures in all of the historical past of artwork. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian grasp are distinctive―no artist sooner than or after him has ever produced this kind of huge, multifaceted, and extensive-ranging œuvre.
This recent TASCHEN version strains Michelangelo’s ascent to the cultural elite of the Renaissance. Ten richly illustrated chapters quilt the artist’s art work, sculptures, and structure, together with a detailed research of the artist’s excursion de power frescoes within the Sistine Chapel.Complete-web page reproductions and enlarged main points permit readers to understand the best main points within the artist’s repertoire, whilst the e-book’s biographical essay considers Michelangelo’s extra private characteristics and cases, similar to his solitary nature, his thirst for cash and commissions, his huge wealth, and his ability as a assets investor.
