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The Young Michelangelo: The Artist in Rome, 1496-1501 and Michelangelo as a Painter on Panel; Making and Meaning (National Gallery London Publications)
 
 
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The Young Michelangelo: The Artist in Rome, 1496-1501 and Michelangelo as a Painter on Panel; Making and Meaning (National Gallery London Publications) [Hardcover]

Michael Hirst (Author), Professor Jill Dunkerton (Author)
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0300061358 978-0300061352 December 28, 1994
Michelangelo`s first stay in Rome was a crucial period in his artistic production, a time when he created the life-sized marble sculptures Bacchus and the celebrated Piet... and worked on at least two important paintings now in the National Gallery, London-the Entombment and the Manchester Madonna. In this handsome book Michael Hirst presents the first coherent narrative of these years in Rome, and his perceptive comparison of the paintings and sculpture is supported by Jill Dunkerton`s lucid technical description of the making of the two National Gallery pictures. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Gallery in October.

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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: National Gallery London (December 28, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300061358
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300061352
  • Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition for the Michelangelophile., October 27, 2001
This review is from: The Young Michelangelo: The Artist in Rome, 1496-1501 and Michelangelo as a Painter on Panel; Making and Meaning (National Gallery London Publications) (Hardcover)
This book covers the evolution of the young Michelangelo's abilities as an artist, as well as the available details of how he spent his time during the period. The authors give persuasive argument for Michelangelo's authorship of a controversial early panel painting, and there is useful discussion of the relationships between Michelangelo's ideas in paintings and sculpture, as well as of their possible antecedents in the work of others.

But what makes this book such a gem is the detailed analysis of the techniques used in the panel paintings. Michelangelo's paintings, like his sculpture, have a unique power, clarity and imaginative force. The panel paintings if anything hint at even greater achievements, but unfortunately only one finished example has come down to us. The latter painting, the _Holy Family_, is one of the most perfect examples of renaissance art, and a tour-de-force of image-making technique. Although this book does not provide direct analysis of that particular painting's technique, in its analysis of other unfinished paintings it provides a great deal of information which illuminates the results Michelangelo achieved in the _Holy Family_ (including a long-needed explosion of the ill-fitting presumption that the smoothly blended forms of the latter were executed in tempera). Well-illustrated.

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