Michelangelo, 1475-1564
By: Yvonne Paris ; translated by Sophie Leighton
Contributors: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Leighton, Sophie
Publisher: Parragon
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781407542713; 9781407542720
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Sculptors; Biography; Artists
Description: This volume presents the entire spectrum of the great Renaissance artist's work--his sculptures, frescoes, buildings, and poetry--as well as a biography of the man himself. Excursions dealing with special aspects of his work, as well as an extensive timeline that places his biography in the historical and cultural context of the turbulent political and religious periods of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries round out the presentation.
Notes: Translated from German.

Includes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.
Table of contents: title: Michelangelo's childhood and youth; title: The end of the quattrocento; title: Early creative years in Florence; title: David and its convoluted history; title: The funerary monument for Pope Julius II; title: The vault frescoes of the Sistine Chapel; title: Fold out : the vault frescoes in the Sistine Chapel; title: The restoration of the vault frescoes in the Sistine Chapel; title: In the service of Medici; title: The great paintings of the mature years; title: The new construction of St. Peter's in Rome; title: "Relieved of a troublesome and heavy burden"; title: The late work; title: Fold out chronology : Michelangelo and his time