Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan (.ePUB)
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Michelangelo: A Life on Paper by Leonard Barkan
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Overview: A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo’s art
Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà , and the dome of St. Peter’s. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist’s marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair surely meant for nobody’s eyes but his own. Michelangelo: A Life on Paper is the first book to examine this intriguing interplay of words and images, providing insight into his life and work as never before.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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