Opis: Michelangelo - Martin Gayford

This is a new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology - such as Hercules, whose statue Michelangelo carved in his youth - he was subject to constant trials and labours. In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be. Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, and contributions to many catalogues. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. Praise for Martin Gayford: This man is blessed with great gifts, and he shares them with great generosity -- Margaret Drabble Guardian Martin Gayford has an exceptional ability to get artists to open up to him RA magazine Fascinating ... a forensic record of how our foremost figurative painter worked ... By the end, in memory, you can see the artist almost whole Daily Telegraph

Szczegóły: Michelangelo - Martin Gayford

Tytuł: Michelangelo
Autor: Martin Gayford
Producent: Fig Tree
ISBN: 9781905490547
Rok produkcji: 2013
Ilość stron: 688
Oprawa: Twarda

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