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Michelangelo

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WHEN MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI DIED IN 1564 there ended a career unparalleled in the arts. This volume includes all of Michelangelo's paintings, presented in 40 large color plates and many sizable black-and-white reproductions. Michelangelo's career was continuously devoted to sculpture; painting--and architecture-— occurred only sporadically. For he painted primarily at the behest of three Renaissance popes, patrons too great to be refused, who demanded works on a herculean scale for the papal palace, the Vatican: the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the enormous Last Judgment on the altar wall of that chapel, and the two mighty frescoes in the Pauline Chapel. Other painters have covered as many square feet in fresco, but only Michelangelo conceived and created works, of ,such thunderous power, staggering in their depth of meaning and their magnificent beauty. rnThe author, Frederick Hartt, professor of the history of art at the University of Virginia, is one of this country's outstanding scholars of Italian art. Completely immersed in the culture of the Renaissance, he has written a long essay and 40 vivid color plates commentaries that contain his own insights and the fruits of previous generations of research. Professor Hartt's account gives us the course of Michelangelo's pain-wracked career, often in the artist's own words and those of his contemporaries, for Michelangelo's titanic genius was acknowledged in his own day as it is in ours. Whether this volume brings Our first acquaintance with Michelangelo's art or renews an admiration of long standing, it offers an unforgettable experience.rn rn111 illustration, including 40 plates in full color

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R 730 HAR m

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New York : Harry N. Abrams., 1984

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ii; p.130; 25 cm

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Indonesia

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810913356

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Seni Patung dan Seni Plastik

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Cet.1 1984

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