Michelangelo. Ediz. IngleseGiunti Editore, 2001 - 117 pagine One of the most prolific and talented artists of the Renaissance, Michelangelo was also a prodigious sculptor and architect ¿ his David being the most recognised work of sculpture in the world. |
Sommario
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28 Michelangelo in the end of the xv century Rome 34 The Vatican Pietà | 28 |
38 The republican Florence 40 The David 48 The Doni Tondo and | 38 |
act one 15071512 | 62 |
The last Florentine years 15131534 | 81 |
100 Rome from the half of the Cinquecento 102 The Last Judgement | 100 |
112 Michelangelo the architect 114 The last Pietà | 112 |
Topographical index 118 | |
Parole e frasi comuni
Accademia Gallery Agnolo artist Bandini Pietà Bargello Battle of Cascina begins Bertoldo Botticelli Bramante bronze Captives cardinal cartoons Casa Buonarroti cathedral Centaurs Charles Christ church classic Clement VII colours commissions Cosimo cultural David death decoration Donatello Doni Tondo famous Farnese figures finished Florence frescoes garden of San gelo Ghirlandaio Giorgio Vasari Giovanni Giuliano Italian langelo Last Judgement Laurentian Leonardo Lorenzo the Magnificent lunettes Madonna manner marble master masterpiece Medicean Chapels Medici family Michelan Michelangelo Museum National Gallery nowadays nudes opposite painted palace papal Paul Perugino Piazza Signoria Piero Pietro in Vincoli Pontormo pope prestigious pupils Raphael realised Renaissance rence returns to Florence Roman Rome Rondanini Pietà Sacristy Saint Peter's San Lorenzo San Marco San Pietro Sangallo Santa Maria Savonarola scenes sculpted sculpture seems Sistine ceiling Sistine Chapel technique tion Tomb of Julius Uffizi Gallery Urbino Vatican City VATICAN PIETÀ Verrocchio Virgin workshop XVI century Rome young
Brani popolari
Pagina 44 - The best of artists hath no thought to show Which the rough stone in its superfluous shell Doth not include: to break the marble spell Is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
Pagina 48 - Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan...
Pagina 14 - ... famous condottiere Sir John Hawkwood, painted in terra verde, is in the cathedral at Florence. A pioneer in the painting of battle scenes, Uccello produced the three-panel Battle of San Romano (c. 1455), commemorating a FlorentineSienese battle of 1432. The three panels are dispersed in the Uffizi in Florence, the National Gallery in London, and the Louvre in Paris. His interest in perspective studies was evident in The Flood (c. 1447-1448). Another work of interest in the Louvre depicts life-size...
Pagina 70 - ... (Do we have here the cadenced utterance of passion?) Or we could cite the Union General in April of 1864, bemoaning blunders and corruption, "May God save my country— if there is a God— and if I have a country." Or a Michelangelo saying in 1509, "I have no friends of any kind and I do not want any," and forty years later writing, "I am always alone and I speak to no one.
Pagina 16 - Among these the sculptors Pietro Torrigiano, Giovanfrancesco Rustici, Baccio da Montelupo, Andrea Sansovino and the painters Niccolo Soggi, Lorenzo di Credi and Giuliano Bugiarami (and earlier, in the seventies, probably the young Leonardo da Vinci too).
Pagina 19 - Michelangelo, copy (c. 1490) from the Ascension of Saint John the Evangelist by Giotto in Santa Croce; Paris, Louvre, Departement des Arts Graphiques.
Pagina 32 - Pieta was originally destined to the Cardinal's tomb in Santa Petronilla, an early Christian chapel annexed to the Constantinian Basilica destroyed to build Saint Peter's where the Pieta will find place.