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020 _a9781407542713
082 1 _aREF 709.2 MIC
_2
100 1 _aParis, Yvonne
240 1 0 _aToller Cranston Collection
245 1 0 _aMichelangelo :
_b1475-1564
_c/ Yvonne Paris
260 _aNew York
_b: Parragon
_c, 2009
300 _a224 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 32 cm
500 _aIndex included
505 0 0 _aMichelangelo's childhood and youth -- The end of the quattrocento -- Early creative years in Florence -- David and its convoluted history -- The funerary monument for Pope Julius II -- The vault frescoes of the Sistine Chapel -- Fold out : the vault frescoes in the Sistine Chapel -- The restoration of the vault frescoes in the Sistine Chapel -- In the service of Medici -- The great paintings of the mature years -- The new construction of St. Peter's in Rome --Relieved of a troublesome and heavy burden -- The late work -- Fold out chronology : Michelangelo and his time
520 _aThis volume presents the entire spectrum of the great Renaissance artist's work - his sculptures, frescoes, buildings, and poetry - as well as a biography of the man himself. Excursions dealing with special aspects of his work, as well as an extensive timeline that places his biography in the historical and cultural context of the turbulent political and religious periods of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries round out the presentation.
546 _aTranslated from Italian to English
600 1 4 _aCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
_d(, 1573-1610)
650 4 _aCriticism and interpretation
650 4 _aSculptor
650 4 _aArt, Italian
942 _cMO
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_d262545