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Michelangelo

The Graphic Work
By Thomas Pöpper
Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) remains one of the most celebrated artists in history, renowned as a sculptor, painter, and architect. This edition of Michelangelo focuses on his graphic works, showcasing his exceptional skill in line, form, and detail. It features a curated collection of his finest drawings from global museums and collections, alongside his own notes and revisions. Readers gain intimate access to Michelangelo's creative process and the breadth of his artistic ambition, including new attributions that deepen understanding of his graphic oeuvre.
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Format: Hardback
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Delight in page after page of Michelangelo's graphic brilliance. From architectural structures to anatomically perfect figures, this fresh edition intersperses some of the artist's finest drawings with his own notes and revisions, offering spine-tingling proximity to the process of his genius.

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Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). The nickname il divino ("the divine one") has been applied to him since the 1530s right through to today: his achievements as a sculptor, painter, and architect remain unparalleled, and his creations are among the best-known artworks in the world.

This Bibliotheca Universalis edition is devoted to the artist's graphic work, a testimony to his masterly command of line, form, and detail, from architectural studies to anatomically perfect figures. The book brings together some of the artist's finest drawings from museums and collections around the world as well as some of his own notes and revisions, offering stunning proximity not only to the ambition and scope of Michelangelo's practice but also his working process.

A chapter with a compilation of newly attributed and reattributed drawings provides further insights into Michelangelo's varied graphic oeuvre and the ongoing exploration of his genius.

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ISBN: 9783836537193

Publisher: Taschen GmbH

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 December 2016

Country: Germany

Imprint: Taschen GmbH

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 47.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 1118g

Pages: 728

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Thomas Pöpper

About the Author

Thomas Pöpper wrote his doctoral thesis on 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture (2003). After a fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, he worked as a volunteer for the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen. Following further appointments at universities in Hamburg und Leipzig, since 2008 he has been Professor of Art and Design History at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau, where he is currently Head of the Faculty of Applied Art. Pöpper has published on a variety of aspects of Italian art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, German painting of the Early Modern era and German sculpture of the 19th and 20th century.

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