Michelangelo Buonarroti E-Book

Narim Bender

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni exercised a huge influence on the development of Western art. He is considered a nominee for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Giorgio Vasari proposed that he was the high point of all artistic achievement of the Renaissance. In this way Michelangelo, indirectly, marked the beginning of the next major movement in Western art - that of Mannerism.A sculptor, architect, painter, and graphic artist, Michelangelo cannot be assigned definitely to any of those genres. The drawing as a medium for developing new ideas and conveying artistic thoughts, however, is the connecting link to and the basis of all his creative activities. During the Renaissance, drawing was established as the basis of every genre of art. Michelangelo viewed his drawings as material he needed for his work. Contemporaries of Michelangelo collected his drawings during his lifetime and guarded them like precious gems.

Leseprobe

Narim Bender

Michelangelo Buonarroti

85 Drawings

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 Munich

Drawings

Kneeling Male Nude

n.d., Black chalk on paper, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Study of a Seated Woman

n.d., Chalk, Musee Conde, Chantilly; this drawing may be related to the lunette frescoes on the Sistine Chapel

Madonna and Child with St. Anne

n.d., Pen and ink, 32.5 x 26 cm, Louvre, Paris

Satyr's Head

n.d., Pen and brown ink, 28 x 21 cm, Louvre, Paris

Two Male Figures after Giotto

1490-92, Pen and gray and brown ink over traces of drawing in stylus, 31.7 x 20.4 cm, Louvre, Paris

This drawing is Michelangelo's partial copy after Giotto's fresco of the Ascension of St John the Evangelist in the Peruzzi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence. It is part of a series of early drawings in which he copied with minor alterations figures from the works of the older Florentine masters, Giotto and Masaccio. This sheet, containing anatomical studies on the verso, is regarded as the earliest extant work by Michelangelo.

Study (for a Deposition or Lamentation of Christ) of a Mourning Woman

1493-97, Pen and brown ink, heightened with white, 26 x 16.5 cm, Private collection

Woman Hoeing and Sitting Man

1493-96, Pen and brown ink, black pencil, 20.8 x 23.3 cm, Teylers Museum, Haarlem

The figures on this sheet are not identified. The half-standing, half-sitting male figure with his animal-like head and long left nipple bears resemblance to a faun. The verso contains two studies of a left foot.

Male Nude

1501-02, Pen and brown ink, 33.7 x 16.2 cm, Louvre, Paris

This drawing, which reflects both classical inspiration and the study of a living model, is connected with the marble David, for which Michelangelo received the commission in August 1501. On the verso, various studies can be seen which can be connected to a wide variety of works by Michelangelo.

Kneeling Female Nude in Profile

1503-04, Pen and brown ink on paper partly prepared in red, 25.8 x 15, 3 cm, Louvre, Paris

This female nude is a study for the kneeling woman on the left lower edge of Michelangelo's Entombment in London. The nude figure is holding the crown of thorns in her right hand and the nails of the Cross in her left, attributes that are missing in the painting, as it was never completed. On the verso of the sheet are early studies in black chalk for individual soldiers in the Battle of Cascina cartoon. The attribution to Michelangelo was often questioned in the past, the drawing was attributed to Andrea di Michelangelo, Raffaello da Montelupo, and later to the School of Fontainebleau. Indeed, Primaticcio used the motif of the female figure in France. More recent scholarship has renewed the attribution of the sheet to Michelangelo.

Standing Male Nude, Seen from the Rear

c. 1503, Pen and brown ink, 38.7 x 19.5 cm, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna