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Author Stokes, Adrian

Title Michelangelo
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Series Routledge Classics
Routledge classics.
Contents Cover; Michelangelo: A Study in the Nature of Art; Copyright; CONTENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; Part I Introductory; 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION; 2 SYNOPSIS OF MICHELANGELO'S LIFE AND KNOWN WORKS (OTHER THAN DRAWINGS AND POEMS); 3 MICHELANGELO AND HIS FAMILY; NOTES TO PART I; Part II Visual Works; NOTES TO PART II; Part III The Poems; NOTES TO PART III; Appendices; I A NOTE ON ICONOGRAPHY; II THE MEDICI CHAPEL; INDEX
Summary Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most complete he ever wrote, presenting an understanding of the great artist that no one subsequently could afford to ignore. Stokes brings to bear in this work not only twenty-five years' study and appreciation of Italian Renaissance art and of aesthetics, but also a unique psychological perspective, as he explains in his introduction, which enables him to uncover the depths of the artist's pers
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Subject Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Psychology
SUBJECT Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 fast
Subject Art.
Art
Psychology
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135070984
1135070989