The Lost Michelangelos


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The Lost Michelangelos


The Lost Michelangelos
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Author : Antonio Forcellino
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-08

The Lost Michelangelos written by Antonio Forcellino and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Art categories.


Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: theuncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artistMichelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library inItaly, where Antonio Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangeloscholar and restorer - stumbled across some unpublished lettersamong the papers of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabellad’Este and an extremely important figure in the ItalianRenaissance. These letters comment on the paintings of Michelangeloin a way that is completely at odds with what was to become thedominant critical tradition of Michelangelo scholarship, aninconsistency that set Forcellino off on a journey that took him toDubrovnik, Oxford, New York and Niagara Falls and culminated in thediscovery of two magnificent paintings: Pieta with Mary and TwoAngels, now in a private collection in America, andCavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an educationalinstitution in England. Through a combination of careful historicalresearch, extensive restoration and meticulous radiographicanalysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these paintings can betraced back to the studio of Michelangelo. This extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into questionthe received view of Michelangelo’s work and fills in amissing piece in our understanding of one of the greatest artistsof all time.



The Lost Battles


The Lost Battles
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Author : Jonathan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-23

The Lost Battles written by Jonathan Jones and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with History categories.


From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. We see Leonardo, having just completed The Last Supper, and being celebrated by all of Florence for his miraculous portrait of the wife of a textile manufacturer. That painting—the Mona Lisa—being called the most lifelike anyone had ever seen yet, more divine than human, was captivating the entire Florentine Republic. And Michelangelo, completing a commissioned statue of David, the first colossus of the Renaissance, the archetype hero for the Republic epitomizing the triumph of the weak over the strong, helping to reshape the public identity of the city of Florence and conquer its heart. In The Lost Battles, published in England to great acclaim (“Superb”—The Observer; “Beguilingly written”—The Guardian), Jonathan Jones brilliantly sets the scene of the time—the politics; the world of art and artisans; and the shifting, agitated cultural landscape. We see Florence, a city freed from the oppressive reach of the Medicis, lurching from one crisis to another, trying to protect its liberty in an Italy descending into chaos, with the new head of the Republic in search of a metaphor that will make clear the glory that is Florence, and seeing in the commissioned paintings the expression of his vision. Jones reconstructs the paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo undertook—Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari, a nightmare seen in the eyes of the warrior (it became the first modern depiction of the disenchantment of war) and Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina, a call to arms and the first great transfiguration of the erotic into art. Jones writes about the competition; how it unfolded and became the defining moment in the transformation of “craftsman” to “artist”; why the Florentine government began to fall out of love with one artist in favor of the other; and how—and why—in a competition that had no formal prize to clearly resolve the outcome, the battle became one for the hearts and minds of the Florentine Republic, with Michelangelo setting out to prove that his work, not Leonardo’s, embodied the future of art. Finally, we see how the result of the competition went on to shape a generation of narrative paintings, beginning with those of Raphael. A riveting exploration into one of history’s most resonant exchanges of ideas, a rich, fascinating book that gives us a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.



The Lost Journals Of Michelangelo


The Lost Journals Of Michelangelo
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Author : Ms Gayle Millbank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04

The Lost Journals Of Michelangelo written by Ms Gayle Millbank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with categories.


Michelangelo's journals might have been found behind his wine kegs in the basement of his house in Rome by his nephew and heir, Lionardo. Lionardo might have kept the journals hidden for many years. However, now that they have come to light, are they authentic or just a figment of this writer's imagination? Michelangelo may have written such a journal documenting his life. From his secure and creative life in Settignano, to his journey in Florence from a crowded home where he shared a bed with his brothers to the palace of Lorenzo Medici where he was treated as a prince, to his last fifty-six years which were fraught with frustrations. In these latter years he dealt with a succession of Popes, the rise and fall of the Medicis, two tombs- one in Rome and one in Firenze - each of complexity enough for any one human lifetime, and frustrating frescos in the Sistine Chapel, interspersed with the architectural challenges of the New Sacristy and Florentine Library in Firenze, and then with St. Peter's in Rome. How could one man be so versatile? So competent? So productive? So extra-ordinary? Read the journal and see what this author thinks Michelangelo was feeling and thinking as he lived his super-human life.



The Michelangelo Enigma


The Michelangelo Enigma
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Author : Daria Sancha Anna Gomez Gane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

The Michelangelo Enigma written by Daria Sancha Anna Gomez Gane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Electronic books categories.




The Lost Journals Of Michelangelo


The Lost Journals Of Michelangelo
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Author : Georgia Gayle Millbank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

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The Life Of Michelangelo Buonarroti


The Life Of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Author : John Addington Symonds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

The Life Of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by John Addington Symonds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Artists categories.




Michelangelo S Last Painting


Michelangelo S Last Painting
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Author : Andrew A. Boemi
language : en
Publisher: Dodd Merrill Press, LLC
Release Date : 2012-11-01

Michelangelo S Last Painting written by Andrew A. Boemi and has been published by Dodd Merrill Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with categories.


Boemi presents an epic tale of international intrigue and conspiracy at the highest levels. The story spans more than 400 years and exposes a chilling revelation discovered in the faces of the original chalk drawing and then concealed in a secret book of the Jesuit religious order and in a painting, which is lost. The terrifying revelation is an ancient curse, which explains attempts to exterminate the Jewish people since the time of Abraham.



Michelangelo


Michelangelo
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Author : Antonio Forcellino
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2009-09-08

Michelangelo written by Antonio Forcellino and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-08 with Art categories.


This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple threads of Michelangelo’s life and times with a brilliant analysis of his greatest works. The author retraces Michelangelo’s journey from Rome to Florence, explores his changing religious views and examines the complicated politics of patronage in Renaissance Italy. The psychological portrait of Michelangelo is constantly foregrounded, depicting with great conviction a tormented man, solitary and avaricious, burdened with repressed homosexuality and a surplus of creative enthusiasm. Michelangelo’s acts of self-representation and his pivotal role in constructing his own myth are compellingly unveiled. Antonio Forcellino is one of the world’s leading authorities on Michelangelo and an expert art historian and restorer. He has been involved in the restoration of numerous masterpieces, including Michelangelo’s Moses. He combines his firsthand knowledge of Michelangelo’s work with a lively literary style to draw the reader into the very heart of Michelangelo’s genius.



Michelangelo


Michelangelo
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Author : Carmen C. Bambach
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2017-11-05

Michelangelo written by Carmen C. Bambach and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-05 with Art categories.


Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was considered in the Renaissance to be the foundation of all artistic disciplines. To his contemporary Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo was “the divine draftsman and designer” whose work embodied the unity of the arts. Beautifully illustrated with more than 350 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural views, this book establishes the centrality of disegno to Michelangelo’s work. Carmen C. Bambach presents a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the artist’s long career in Florence and Rome, beginning with his training under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo and ending with his seventeen-year appointment as chief architect of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The chapters relate Michelangelo’s compositional drawings, sketches, life studies, and full-scale cartoons to his major commissions—such as the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, the church of San Lorenzo and its New Sacristy (Medici Chapel) in Florence, and Saint Peter’s—offering fresh insights into his creative process. Also explored are Michelangelo’s influential role as a master and teacher of disegno, his literary and spiritual interests, and the virtuoso drawings he made as gifts for intimate friends, such as the nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna, the marchesa of Pescara. Complementing Bambach’s text are thematic essays by leading authorities on the art of Michelangelo. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and richly illustrated, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of this timeless artist.



The Sistine Secrets


The Sistine Secrets
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Author : Benjamin Blech
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13

The Sistine Secrets written by Benjamin Blech and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.


The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork The recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centuries of accumulated tarnish and darkness. The Sistine Secrets endeavors to remove the centuries of prejudice, censorship, and ignorance that blind us to the truth about one of the world's most famous and beloved art treasures. Some images that appeared in the print edition of this book are unavailable in the electronic edition due to rights reasons.