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Michelangelo : the artist, the man, and his times /
Overview: Michelangelo is universally recognized to be one of the greatest artists of all time. In this vividly written biography, William E. Wallace offers a substantially new view of the artist. Not only a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, Michelangelo was also an aristocrat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Note to the reader
- Part 1
- Introduction
- 1: Rome, 1496
- Unconventional beginning
- To Carrara
- Friends and the Pieta
- Michelangelo, 1500
- 2: Aristocrat of artists
- Under a fateful star
- What's in a name?
- Privileged beginning
- Medici connection
- Of the noblest origins
- Florentine citizens
- Michelangelo in school
- Sex and domestic arrangements
- Was there love?
- Flattened nose
- 3: Rise to prominence
- Early works
- To Bologna
- Return to Florence
- David
- For the republic
- Three Tondi
- Doni's double
- International fame
- 4: Papal Summons
- Michelangelo in Bologna, 1506-1508
- Casting in great bronze
- 5: Rome, 1508-1516
- At work in the Sistine Chapel
- Family matters
- Barefoot and naked
- Current affairs
- Completing the ceiling
- Tomb again
- Pope Leo X
- Place of brigands
- 6: Florence, 1515-1525
- Marble behemoth
- First column
- Cancellation
- From facade to mausoleum
- New pope, a new start
- Jacopo Salviati
- Clement VII
- 7: Week in the life
- Monday, July 24
- Tuesday, July 25
- Wednesday, July 26
- Thursday, July 27
- Friday, July 28
- Saturday, July 29
- Sunday, July 30
- Medici Chapel and Laurentian Library
- 8: Florence, 1525-1534
- Unfavorable times
- They are all dying of hunger
- War
- Aftermath of war
- Domestic matters
- Departure
- Part 2
- 9: Rome, 1534-1542
- Old and new friends: Fattucci
- Jesting with Sebastiano and company
- Tommaso de Cavalieri
- Paul III
- Pope's artist
- Last judgment
- Julius tomb again-and again
- Denouement
- 10: Rome, 1542-1545
- Poetic muses
- Illness and unusual gift
- Vittoria Colonna
- Poet's growing reputation.
- 11: Papal architect, Rome, 1546-1549
- Pasture for silly sheep
- St Peter's Campidoglio and Farnese Palace
- Lionardo
- Finding a wife
- Una Casa Onorevole
- Misunderstandings
- We must be resigned
- Once again, a suitable wife
- 12: New friends, diminishing family
- Pauline Chapel
- 1550: Julius III
- Giorgio Vasari
- Urbino
- Michelangelo's household
- Pieta
- Molto Afflicto e Tribolato
- 13: St Peter's
- Michelangelo's assistant: Bastiano Malenotti
- Spoleto
- Rome again-and St Peter's
- St Peter's or Florence?
- 14: Late work, long life
- San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
- Tiberio Calcagni
- Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli
- Friends, rivals, fawners, and favors
- Leone Leoni
- Thousand kisses
- 15: Final years
- For the welfare of my soul
- Cornelia Colonelli
- Patriarch of Casteldurante
- Working at St Peter's and at home
- Murder
- Marcello Venusti
- Daniele da Volterra
- Questo Santo Huomo
- Last Pieta
- Illness and death
- 16: Return to Florence
- Final journey
- I never ran a shop
- Notes
- Cast of principal characters
- Popes during Michelangelo's life
- Abbreviations of frequently cited works
- Index.