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1) Michelangelo
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes...
3) Michelangelo
Author
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
15 pages : 48 plates (part color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
4) Michelangelo
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
Offers a brief biography of Michelangelo and contains large color photographs of his most prominent sculptures and paintings.
5) Michelangelo
Author
Physical Desc
48 pages illustrations, 20 color slides (in pockets) 29 cm.
Language
English
6) Michelangelo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1974
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
7) Michelangelo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations, ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project.Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life. 'Michelangelo, God's...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xxii, 504 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Michelangelo was recognized during his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a number of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. He impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with intense emotional power. Often portrayed as a solitary and austere figure, he in fact enjoyed a remarkable range of friendships, and those he loved and hated, served or resisted are presented here, from...
15) Michelangelo
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, well known for his work on the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
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