What's in a name?
Subtitle: Michelangelo and the art of signature
By: Carl Smith
Publisher: The K Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780692020890
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Autographs
Description: What's in a name? : Michelangelo and the art of signature is the story of an improbable investigation into an unlikely subject, one that began on a dare but stretched over a decade. Why did Michelangelo Buonarroti, the celebrated Renaissance sculptor, painter, poet, and architect use so many different  styles and spellings when signing his name? Long regarded merely as improvisatory gestures, Michelangelo's enigmatic signatures are presented here as intentional, deeply felt small works of art that offer surprising insights into the artist's thoughts as he created them--Publisher's description.
Notes: Staff notation.