Customer Reviews

Michelangelo

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This is an excellent resource if you are looking for a comprehensive collection of photos of Michelangelo's works. Text is minimal but concise; the main focus is on the works themselves on page after page of gorgeous black and white photos. The only real drawback is that I would have liked to have seen more color plates of his paintings; there are only a few, focusing on the Sistine Chapel paintings, with close-up details shown in black and white photos.

..most of the plates are in black and white and not of a very high definition. i also wished for more detail plates of the major works.
still, though, a decent value for the price.

This is an amazing book. The images are huge and extremly detailed. I am a novice sculptor so for me the close up shots of his work are an enormous benifit to my work.

I love this book. It is one of my favorites. For a long time I had been looking for a book on Michelangelo that showed some nice closeups and detail of some of his sculpture work. This book has that. It would add nicely to the collection of any artist interested in Michelango.

We purchased this book for our son and he was amazed by the clarity, etc. ..... an awesome book and extremely pleased

As the others said, the large and detailed photos are great.
The plates are black and white. I think this might be the very reason that this book is attractive to me. There are color photos of the Sistine inserted in the beginning, clearly by the editors -- the paintings were not renovated in the author's time. To me, and I believe to many others, the black-white photos capture the true spirit of Michelangelo's work more closer than the new vivid photos.
Sincerely, I consider this book as the best one of its kind.

This Book is a good value for sculptors and modelers for studying M's works. Each plate has a short description of each work. This book is a valuable reference to all artists in fine art and digital art.

Although the images are B&W it is a must have!!

This book provides great reference material.