Michelangelo

This is a beautifully designed monograph on the architectural works of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and the only hardcover illustrated book in print in English on the subject. Like the other titles in the Old Masters series, this book is an authoritative monograph in a slipcase, combining a scholarly text with more than 500 stunning black-and-white photographs, plans, and drawings, and 24 color illustrations, many reproduced at full-page size. The book documents the architectural works of Michelangelo in five chapter essays and an extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of 31 of Michelangelo's architectural projects. Though Michelangelo is probably Italy's most famous artists and the name most associated with the Italian Renaissance, his architectural work is less known - though no less influential - than his paintings and sculptures. Surprisingly, among the dozens of books on Michelangelo, virtually none focus on his architecture. This volume focuses exclusively on Michelangelo's architectural production and is the only publication on the market to provide an authoritative text and complete visual documentation of the work, in beautiful reproductions and photograph

ISBN 1904313256   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781904313250 (What's this?)   Pages 388 Publisher Electa Architecture   Volumes 1 Imprint Electa Architecture   Weight (grammes) 2950 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 01 Jun 2004   Height (mm) 280 Photographer Basilico, Gabriele   Width (mm) 250 Library of Congress NA1123.B9   Spine width (mm) 47 DEWEY 720.92   Academic level General

		Michelangelo as architect		6
Ch. 1		Before architecture		36
No. 1		Tomb of Julius II, first design, 1505-6		49
No. 2		Studies for the completion of the drum of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, 1507 and 1516		56
No. 3		Painted architectural divisions on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome, 1508-12		60
No. 4		Aedicula for the Chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, c. 1514		64
No. 5		Tomb of Julius II, successive designs, 1513-42		67
Ch. 2		Florence, 1516-34		80
No. 6		Drawings after the Coner Codex and other studies of classical architecture, 1515-17		154
No. 7		Design for the facade of San Lorenzo, 1516-20		161
No. 8		"Kneeling" windows for the Medici Palace, c. 1517		172
No. 9		Design for a pulpit, 1518		172
No. 10		Design for a palace, 1518-20		173
No. 11		New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, 1519-34		175
No. 12		Laurentian Library, San Lorenzo, 1519-59		186
No. 13		Tribune of the Relics, San Lorenzo, 1525-33		198
No. 14		Portal of Sant'Apollonia, 1525/35		201
No. 15		Designs for the fortifications of Florence, 1528-29		202
No. 16		Design for a bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice, 1529 or 1551		209
No. 17		Design for the Santa Trinita bridge, 1560		209
Ch. 3		Rome, 1534-46		210
No. 18		Renovation of the Capitoline complex, 1538-64		252
No. 19		Farnese Palace, 1546-49		264
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"This book provides a very good general treatment of this often overlooked but considerable portion of the artist's oeuvre. For general readers as well as scholars." - Jack Perry Brown, Librarian, Art Institute of Chicago, in Library Journal"

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