Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture / Edition 6

by Ludwig Goldscheider

Overview

First published in 1953, this book remains a classic piece of literature on the work and life of Michelangelo (1475-1564). It continues to be the only volume to contain illustrations of all his paintings, sculpture and architecture.

The book is designed to serve both the student and the art lover: the fine quality reproductions emphatically illustrate Michelangelo's genius, while the text surveys the ideas and theses of the world's leading scholars on the painting, sculpture and architecture of Michelangelo and provides a detailed and sophisticated commentary with extensive bibliographical notes.

The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides an invaluable record of their condition before the recent controversial cleaning, while ten colour plates show some of the paintings in their restored state, offering the works to the reader's eye for close discrimination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714832968
Publisher:	Phaidon Press
Publication date:	08/28/1996
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 1.12(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Ludwig Goldscheider (1896-1973) was a distinguished art historian and book designer, and co-founder of Phaidon Press in Vienna in 1923.

Editorial Reviews

"The book yields a stimulating overall view of Michelangelo's religious and artistic journey, full of terribilità and beauty, which is enriched and enlivened by the messages from easily missed details, including ornamental marks, significant expressions and expressive gestures."—The Tablet

From the Publisher

In this recent revision of the classic 1953 study, Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture, color photographs of the newly cleaned ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (and new prints of the original edition's black-and-white photography) complement the expert essays penned by a group of prominent and influential art historians and critics. This volume's longevity is not hard to understand, because the feat of reproducing all of Michelangelo's life's work in one book is unlikely to be repeated soon.

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Originally printed in 1953, this edition is the title's sixth incarnation. This update now includes color photographs of the newly cleaned ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. All the original black-and-white images also have been redone for this upgrade.

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