
Michelangelo
The Divine Genius
Eugene Muentz(Author)
Parkstone Press USA, Limited
Published on 15. July 2019
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-64699-422-9 (ISBN)
Description
The legend of Michelangelo (1475-1564) has endured, undiminished, for five hundred years. Scholars such as Chateaubriand, Manzoni, and Rilke have seen in him a master of the renewal of Western art. Indeed, endowed with an almost superhuman creative genius, Michelangelo incarnates for us the "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance, and the quality and scope of his oeuvre is uncontested, not even by Leonardo da Vinci - works like his Pietà, David, and the Sistine Chapel frescos are the proof. How was he able, in so few years, to develop the methods behind a body of work worthy of his Greek predecessors? No-one has better examined the complexities of the man, the artist, and the age in which he lived than Eugene Müntz. His text, written in clear and pure style, is a literary work in itself, and it is accompanied here by illustrations of an exceptional quality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
983 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64699-422-9 (9781646994229)
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Person
Eugène Müntz (1845-1902) was a member of the Institut de France and curator of the collections of l'Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and has been one of the most influential specialists on the Italian Renaissance. His A History of Art during the Renaissance remains a university reference today.