THOENES CHRISTOF

(H/B) MICHELANGELO
Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique-no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multifaceted, and wide-ranging uvre. This fresh TASCHEN edition traces Michelangelo's ascent to the cultural elite of the Renaissance. Ten richly illustrated chapters cover the artist's paintings, sculptures...
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(H/B) MICHELANGELO
Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted David and Pieta, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique - no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multifaceted, and wide-ranging oeuvre. This comprehensive book explores Michelangelo's life and work with a richly illustrated biographical essay, and a complete four-part inventory of his paintings, sculp...
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(H/B-25) RAPHAEL, 1753-1520
When Charles Darwin reached the west coast of South America on his circumnavigation of the globe between 1831 und 1836, he came face to face for the first time with true savages, the natives of Tierra del Fuego. Shocked by their appearance and behaviour, he called to mind the paintings of Raphael: the comparison demonstrated for him the scope embraced by the species homo sapiens. This is the view of Raphael as the Renaissance classic, a painter who -like Polycletus and Phidias in classical antiquity- laid down once and for all what the hum...
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MICHELANGELO 1475-1564

(P/B) RAPHAEL (3822822035)
Paths of access to a classic Apprenticeship and early years as a master Raphael in Florence The Madonna Painter in the Vatican The large altarpieces The patron: Agostino Chigi Portraits Epilogue: "Those fine classical buildings" Chonology...
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