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This digital document is an article from Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 908 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This set has been prepared especially for nonspecialists, focusing on Renaissance-era topics, including entries on Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. ... Read more

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I am hoping this is the same book I am reading. They spelled the author's name differently. I am reading a hardcover from 1964 by Rolph Schott. What a fantastic book. If you are limiting your Michelangelo knowledge to the current great books, expand. This book relates some interesting ideas that have been eliminated from the current discussion. And although the photos are old and dark and blurry, there are lots of them; and different ones from the other books. I learned new things and got new perspective from this book. After reading ' Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling ' and ' Michelangelo and the re-invention of the human body ' and the newest hardcover " Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel ' I thought I knew quite a bit. This book opened my eyes a little wider. ... Read more

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Chapters: Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benvenuto Cellini, Melchior Lorck, Bernard Van Orley, Giulio Campagnola, Hans Eworth, Marcantonio Raimondi, Taccola, Bramantino, Antonio Del Pollaiolo, Master Ms, Urs Graf, Andrea Riccio, Flaminio Ponzio, David Kandel, Bartolommeo Tutiani, Franco Tramazzino. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 131. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (·)) (April 15, 1452 May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time. Born the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by Francis I. Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18079 ... Read more

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Michelangelo The Great Artists A Library of their lives, times and paintings Book 5 ... Read more

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WE ARE VERY INTERESTED ON THE POSSIBILITY TO REPRODUCE 6 PHOTOGRAPHS IN A PAPER TO BE PUBLISHED IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL REGARDING THE MEDICAL ANALYSIS OF MICHELANGELO ... Read more

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A delightful rumination on the controversial, Japanese-sponsored restoration of the Sistine Ceiling, Sayonara, Michelangelo brings us face to face with the brilliantly refurbished frescoes and reveals a rational, colorful Michelangelo--not the impulsive, tortured genius characterized by art historians and Hollywood. ... Read more

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THIS IS A VERY INTRESTING BOOK-I LIKED IT
THIS IS A BOOK THAT WILL DEFINETLYTEACH YOU ALOT ABOUT ART.BUTI REALLY DON'T THINK THAT THE AUTHOR REALLY KNEW WHAT HE WAS SAYING. THE BOOK DIDN'T HAVE A REAL POINT

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I picked up this book at the library while searching for information on the restoration of the Sistine Chapel. Despite the claims of the beautifully designed jacket, this book has nothing to do with anything but Janusczcak's love affair with his own writing. The information relevant to Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel, Nippon Television, or the restoration process could have been condensed into less than thirty pages. To be fair, I slogged through the entire book, and now I'll never get those minutes of my life back.SAYONARA MICHELANGELO is a celebration of onanistic writing. Facts seem to be nothing more than ornamentation for Januszczak's (deep) purple flights of fancy. This is not a resource for anything but Waldemar's little fantasies, and as a novel, the plot's kinda thin.Save your shekels for one of Amazon's many other fine offerings. ... Read more

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Stokes gave us art criticism as poetry, and in Michelangelo he produced a highly personal and sensitive portrait of a man and his work. ... Read more

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Recounts the life of the famous sculptor, painter, poet, and architect who flourished during the Italian Renaissance. ... Read more

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Michelangelo Buonarroti was the foremost sculptor of the Italian Renaissance and one of the leading painters of his time. His works are some of the best known in the world, from his marble David to his paintings of the Sistine Chapel. Sought after by the rich and powerful, he became a legend of his own making long before his death in 1564. The Essential(tm) Michelangelo is the book to read if you have zero tolerance for artspeak and a lively curiosity about what has made this artist so popular. ... Read more

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This book focuses on San Lorenzo, a key Florentine monument of the Renaissance, where Michelangelo's contributions to the church are among his greatest achievements as a sculptor and architect.Each chapter deals with one of his three commissions there, and examines the organization and day-to-day operations at the building site, as well as the artist's personal and professional relations with nearly 300 persons who assisted him in carrying out the designs.William Wallace vividly relates Michelangelo's struggles and triumphs over the years he worked on these projects. ... Read more