Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet this volume also reveals the iconic sculptor and painter to be an innovative poet. His intense and passionate sonnets dedicated to Tommaso de' Cavalieri reveal a highly charged, homoerotic fervour (deliberately obscured by Michelangelo's first editor in 1623); but both these and the poems for his fellow-poet Vittoria Colonna are already permeated by the profound religious sensibility that would dominate his later work. Michelangelo's letters also provide an insight into his family relations and his day-to-day life as a working artist, resulting in a fascinating self-portrait of one of the towering figures of the Renaissance." "Anthony Mortimer's versions of Petrarch in Penguin Classics were hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as 'a deeply serious and accomplished work of literature'. These translations are accompanied by an introduction demonstrating the significance of the artist's verse in its own right. This edition also includes Vasari's 1550 Life of Michelangelo, a chronology, further reading and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

Reproduces and annotates every work of Michelangelo except his drawings, For other editions, see Author Catalog.

"In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work. Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which went on to become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all-time.Organized chronologically, this collection combines the artist's own words with his sketches and finished artwork. His letters about the Sistine Chapel and Pope Julius, for example, will be illustrated with sketches he would have been working on at the time he was writing. The writing and art is selected by Carolyn Vaughan, former editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who provides fascinating commentary and insights into the material throughout the book"--

Um die Jahreswende 1913/14 legte Adolf Brand, Begründer und Verleger der Zeitschrift „Der Eigene“, in rascher Folge als „Wegwalt-Drucke“ sieben Hefte mit historischen und zeitgenössischen Texte vor.