Michelangelo A Life on Paper

Free Download Leonard Barkan, "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper"
English | ISBN: 0691147663 | 2010 | 384 pages | PDF | 72 MB
A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo’s art

Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà, and the dome of St. Peter’s. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist’s marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair surely meant for nobody’s eyes but his own.
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