Michelangelo
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000E8JN2Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cliente Amazon said Good research. Very detailed research on Michelangelo times and work. Five Stars Ron E. Goulet Very good bio with great pics!. L.C. Brown said were so inhibiting as to make me unable to recommend it, but it was detailed and I learned. The printing style and other errors were so inhibiting as to make me unable to recommend it, but it was detailed and I learned a lot history-wise.
However, he confessed, anticipating divine judgment, that he regretted having made art "both idol and monarch, like the things every man desires despite himself." Bull's crowded canvas challenges readers, but a complex and contradictory Michelangelo emerges. Since the two were inextricable in Michelangelo's time, Bull weaves his way through a mind-boggling succession of popes and wars of greed among major powers and minor principalities at a time when the papacy was a territorial player, and some of the most accomplished artists ever?Leonardo, Raphael, Bronzino, Cellini, Titian?were dependent on Vatican artistic and architectural commissions. Illustrations. Drawn to muscular male bodies whose powerful evocations were the pinnacle of his art, Michelangelo also wrote effusive poetry to men to whom his affections were obvious, but he claimed in old age to have always observed sexual continence. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, I
Often portrayed as a solitary and austere figure, he in fact enjoyed a wide range of friendships. And it is those whom he loved and hated, served or resisted, who are presented here-- from his family and fellow artists to the popes, nobles, and rulers of Europe. Much has been written about the paintings and sculptures of Michelangelo, arguably the greatest artist of the Renaissance. In all his work, Michelangelo impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with terrabilita, or intense emotional power. George Bull presents the life of Michelangelo in the round, bringing before the reader a towering genius whose versatility and originality are constantly being rediscovered.. But what about the man? In this revealing look at the Florentine genius, acclaimed author George Bull traces the life and spiritual quest of Michelangelo, drawing a fuller portrait of the man himself