British Museum.

Drawings by Michelangelo, from the British Museum.

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, [1979]

111 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was extraordinarily famous during his lifetime, so much so that other artists produced portraits of him and three biographies were written. His artistic achievements set him in a class apart from his contemporaries; after the death of his main rival Raphael in 1520, he was to dominate the Roman art world for more than four decades. His primary focus as an artist was the male body, and his drawings chart his relentless search to find poses that would most eloquently express the emotional and spiritual state of his subjects. Most of Michelangelo's drawings were never intended for public display. In fact, he would have been appalled to see them exhibited as he hated showing them to outsiders. He destroyed a large number before he died, probably to prevent them from falling into other hands; he may also have wished to conceal the amount of preparation behind his major works.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Dibujo
Drawing, Italian 16th century Exhibitions.
Drawing, Renaissance 16th century Exhibitions.
Dessin italien 16e siècle Expositions.
Dessin de la Renaissance 16e siècle Expositions.
Drawing, Italian
Drawing, Renaissance

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Pierpont Morgan Library.

Location: Library main 13612
Call No.: PO8881 EXHLONDON(ENGLAND); ID:87-B15015
Status: Available