The Complete Work of Michelangelo
Publisher: Reynal and Company; William Morrow and Company
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, -- 1475-1564
Notes: "An Artabras Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-593).
Table of contents: title: 6
label: Foreword. By Mario Salmi; label: I. The Historic and Artistic Personality of Michelangelo. By Charles De Tolnay; title: 7
label: Michelangelo in his period; title: 7
label: Michelangelo in Florence; title: 20
label: Michelangelo in Bologna; title: 21
label: Michelangelo in Rome; title: 25
label: The artistic character of Michelangelo; title: 25
label: Methods of work; title: 44
label: Michelangelo's theory of art - Principal periods in the development of Michelangelo's artistic personality; title: 46
label: Michelangelo's fame; title: 46
label: In literature and criticism; title: 56
label: Michelangelo's influence in art: Michelangelism; label: II. Sculpture. By Umberto Baldini; title: 73
label: The beginning; title: 85
label: The sojourn in Bologna; title: 87
label: Rome and the ancient world; title: 94
label: Return to Tuscany: Florence and Siena; title: 94
label: The tragedy of the tomb; title: 121
label: The New Sacristy of San Lorenzo; title: 136
label: The last works; label: III. Painting. By Roberto Salvini; title: 149
label: Michelangelo as painter; title: 152
label: The early works; title: 165
label: The Doni tondo; title: 176
label: The Battle of Cascina; title: 197
label: The Sistine vault; title: 223
label: The Last Judgment; title: 255
label: The Cappella Paolina; title: 272
label: Bibliographical Note; label: IV. Architecture. By Guglielmo De Angelis D'Ossat; title: 273
label: Introduction; title: 274
label: Approach to architecture; title: 274
label: Madonna della Scala; title: 274
label: Tomb of Julius II; title: 278
label: The Sistine Chapel; title: 280
label: Facade in Castel Sant' Angelo; title: 283
label: Church of San Lorenzo; title: 284
label: Completion of cupola of Saanta Maria del Fiore; title: 287
label: Four windows for the Palazzo Medici; title: 289
label: Studies for palaces; title: 291
label: The Laurentian flourish; title: 291
label: The New Sacristy; title: 300
label: The Laurentian Library; title: 309
label: Project for the high altar; title: 310
label: Plans for the tombs of the Medici Popes; title: 314
label: Loggia for Relics; title: 316
label: The Cloister door; title: 316
label: The crucial interval of the Florentine fortifications; title: 324
label: The two greatest undertakings; title: 324
label: The Capitoline Piazza and palaces; title: 340
label: The New St. Peter's; title: 353
label: Other works of the twenty years of architecture; title: 353
label: The completion of Palazzo Farnese; title: 357
label: Projects for the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini; title: 366
label: Santa Maria degli Angeli; title: 368
label: The Sforza Chapel; title: 371
label: Porta Pia; label: V. Drawings. By Luciano Berti; title: 377
label: Preliminary Note; title: 379
label: Youthful drawings prior to cartoon for the Battle of Cascina (1490 c. 1505 c.); title: 403
label: Studies for the Battle of Cascina (1504-6); title: 412
label: Drawing for the vault of the Sistine Chapel (1508-12); title: 428
label: Architectural drawings up to the final departure from Florence (c. 1515-34); title: 438
label: Studies for the fortification of Florence (1528-30; title: 446
label: Figure studies from the vault of the Sistine Chapel to the Last Judgment (from about 1516 to 1534); title: 468
label: Studies for the Last Judgment (1534-41); title: 474
label: Architectural studies of the Roman period (1541-64); title: 476
label: Figure drawings of the final period (from about 1540); title: 494
label: Bibliographical Note; title: 497
label: VI. Minor Works. By Charles De Tolnay; label: VII. Thinker. By Eugenio Garin; title: 517
label: Questions of method; title: 519
label: Michelangelo as platonist; title: 521
label: The alleged platonic initiation of Michelangelo; title: 523
label: The literary documents. The poems; title: 527
label: Michelangelo's cultural formation; title: 529
label: Concluding remarks; label: VIII. Writer. By Enzo Noe Girardi; title: 531
label: Michelangelo as a writer of his time; title: 531
label: Autonomy between writer and artist; title: 532
label: Michelangelo and Florentine culture; title: 533
label: Letters; title: 533
label: General character of the correspondence; title: 533
label: Family letters; title: 538
label: Business letters; title: 540
label: Formal letters; title: 541
label: Poems; title: 541
label: Relation between the letters and the poems; title: 542
label: Literary initiation of Michelangelo: "Poets and orators in the vernacular"; title: 543
label: Dante and Petrarch; title: 544
label: The originality of Michelangelo's poetry; title: 545
label: Poems of the first period (1500-1532/34); title: 548
label: Poems of the second period (1534-1547); title: 552
label: Poems of the third period (1547-1560); title: 555
label: Conclusion; title: 556
label: Bibliographical Note; title: 557
label: IX. Language. By Giovanni Nencioni; title: 565
label: X. Bibliographical Note. By Francesco De Feo; title: 585
label: XI. Bibliography. By Peter Meller; title: 595
label: {Contents}; title: 599
label: {Plates}; title: 600
label: {Acknowledgments}; title: {Librarian's Note: At the beginning of the book there is a list of the books chapters without page numbers or subsections. The actual Contents page is located near the back of the book. Titles with curly brackets {} are not shown in this 'Contents' page.}