Творчество Микеланджело - скульптора, живописца, архитектора и рисовальщика - поистине уникально. Ни один художник не оставил столь обширного, многогранного и разнообразного наследия. Лишь немногие живописцы и скульпторы сумели достичь такого высокого художественного уровня. Фрески Сикстинской капеллы, монументальная скульптура и архитектура Микеланджело намного опередили свое время.
Это богато иллюстрированное издание представляет полное собрание произведений Микеланджело и подробно повествует о его жизни и творчестве. Четыре каталога (скульптуры, живописи, архитектурных проектов и рисунков) анализируют работы мастера.
Большое внимание уделяется личности художника, а также доселе неизвестным обстоятельствам жизни и творчества Микеланджело. В книге поднимаются вопросы атрибуции некоторых рисунков, авторство которых до сих пор является спорным. Эта публикация может послужить материалом для новых дебатов и научных исследований.
Прекрасно иллюстрированное подарочное издание большого формата в суперобложке, с шелковым ляссе. Эта книга будет прекрасным подарком.
Before reaching the tender age of thirty, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted David and Pièta, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. Like fellow Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo was a shining star of the Renaissance and a genius of consummate virtuosity. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and architect are unique - no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multi-faceted, and wide-ranging oeuvre. Only a handful of other painters and sculptors have attained a comparable social status and enjoyed a similar artistic freedom. This is demonstrated not only by the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel but also by Michelangelo’s monumental sculptures and his unconventional architectural designs, whose forms went far beyond the accepted vocabulary of his day. Such was his talent that Michelangelo was considered a demigod by his contemporaries and was the subject of two biographies during his lifetime. Adoration of this remarkable man’s work has only increased on the intervening centuries.
Following the success of our XL title Leonardo da Vinci, TASCHEN brings you this massive tome that explores Michelangelo’s life and work in more depth and detail than ever before. The first part concentrates on the life of Michelangelo via an extensive and copiously illustrated biographical essay; the main body of the book presents his work in four parts providing a complete analytical inventory of Michelangelo’s paintings, sculptures, buildings and drawings. Grorgeous, full page reproductions and enlarged details bring readers up close to the works.
This sumptuous tome also takes account, to a previously unseen extent, of Michelangelo’s more personal traits and circumstances, such as his solitary nature, his thirst for money and commissions, his miserliness, his immense wealth, and his skill as a property investor. In addition, the book tackles the controversial issue of the attribution of Michelangelo drawings, an area in which decisions continue to be steered by the interests of the art market and the major collections. This is the definitive volume about Michelangelo for generations to come.
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works, Vol.2, 1917-1942
Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete Works, Vol.3, 1943-1959
Zaha Hadid, Complete Works 1979–2009
Santiago Calatrava. Complete Works 1979-2007
Ando. Complete Works, Updated Version 2010
Shigeru Ban, Complete Works 1985-2010
Renzo Piano. Complete Works
Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel, Complete Works 1970-2008
Carl Becker, Decorative Arts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
