Michelangelo 500 – Bookshop Edition

The history of the Renaissance and of the highest art

500 years ago Michelangelo was working at the Risen Christ located in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. He was already the man of the Doni Tondo, of the Vatican Pietà, of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and of many other masterpieces; the man who would later make the Last Judgement and, between his various artworks, the frescoes of the Pauline Chapel and the completion of the Tomb of Julius II. It is the history of the Renaissance and the highest Art, the history of the unsurpassed XVI century.
“Michelangelo 500” aims to celebrate the Master and his Myth through his masterpieces, his less celebrated works and his interdisciplinary projects that have characterized the greatness of a supreme Artist, with exclusive images of the Sistine Chapel and detailed updatings on the life and entire artistic path of the greatest Artist of all time.

New exclusive photographic campaign © Scripta Maneant with images of the Sistine Chapel in 1: 1 scale

Description of the volume

• Size: 24 x 32,2 cm
• Pages: 304
• Images: 200 (in prevalenza a piena e doppia pagina)
• Text: Italiano/Inglese
• ISBN 978-88-95847-86-3
• Hardcover with dust jacket printed in four-colors 
• Printed in four-colors process on 170 gr/mq matt coated paper
•  Endpapers not printed on Fedrigoni Acquerello Avorio 160 gr/mq

Author

Fabio Scaletti
Fabio Scaletti is a writer and scholar of Art. Expert of Caravaggio, he is author of several publications on magazines and volumes, focusing in particular on the Renaissance and the attributional theme. His Caravaggesque specialization was followed by the systematic deepening of the great figures in the history of Italian Renaissance Art, from Leonardo up to Michelangelo and Raphael.

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Michelangelo 500 – Bookshop Edition

Index

• Introduction

  MICHELANGELO THE SCULPTOR

  The First Works of Casa Buonarroti
  The Wooden Crucifix for the Priore
  The Ark of Saint Dominic
  The Upset in Rome
  The Only Signed Masterpiece
  The Giant for the Signoria
  A Virgin with Child to be exported
  Two Madonnas in the Tondo
  A Forty-Year-Long “Tragedy”
  A Sculpture made in Miniature and a Fine Copy
  Hercules and the Adolescent
  The Medici Tombs in San Lorenzo
  The “Political” Statues in the Bargello Museum
  Extreme Meditations in Sculpture
  Attributed and Lost Sculptures

   

  MICHELANGELO THE PAINTER
  Drawings by the “Old Masters”
  Half of Michelangelo at the National Gallery in London
  The Dismembered and Lost Cartoon
  A Pictorial Unicum at the Uffizi Gallery
  The Masterpiece
  The Scandalous Painting Condemned to the Stake
  Pontormo as Translator of Buonarroti
  To the Aid of Friends
  The Memorable Return to the Sistine Chapel
  Signed Gifts
  The Last Pictorial Enterprise
  Paintings and Drawings Attributed and Lost

  MICHELANGELO THE ARCHITECT
  Architect in Florence
  Architect in Rome

  Life in brief
  Bibliographical Indications