Michelangelo, God's Architect (eBook)

The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

William E. Wallace (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19439-4 (ISBN)

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The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life.Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter's Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter's project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering. Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razor-sharp intellect, Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of Church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start over.In this richly illustrated book, leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelo's biography, revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman. The challenge of building St. Peter's deepened Michelangelo's faith, Wallace shows. Fighting the intrigues of Church politics and his own declining health, Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived. And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 62 color + 33 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Altarpiece • Antonio Barberini • Antonio da Sangallo • Ascanio Condivi • Ascanio Sforza • Basilica • Battle of Cascina (Michelangelo) • Benvenuto Cellini • Bernardino Ochino • Borgo (rione of Rome) • Buonarroti • burial • candelabra • Capitoline Hill • Casa Buonarroti • Catherine de' Medici • Christendom • cornice • Cosimo de' Medici • Daniele da Volterra • Della Rovere • Designer • Donato Bramante • drapery • Engineering • engraving • Entablature • Filippo Brunelleschi • Flagellation of Christ • Florence Cathedral • Francesco Borromini • Gasparo Contarini • Giacomo della Porta • Gian Lorenzo Bernini • Giorgio Vasari • Giotto • Giovanni Battista • Giovanni Morone • Giuliano da Sangallo • kidney stone • Laurentian Library • Leonardo da Vinci • Lino Pertile • Lorenzo de' Medici • ludovico • Marble sculpture • Marcello Venusti • Mausoleum • Medici Chapel • Michelangelo • painting • Palazzo Farnese • petrarch • Pietro Bembo • Pilaster • Pirro Ligorio • Poetry • Ponte Sant'Angelo • Pontiff • pope alexander vi • Pope Julius II • Pope Julius III • Pope Paul • Pope Paul III • Pope Paul IV • Porta del Popolo • Porta Pia • pozzolana • Rebellious Slave • Reginald Pole • Renaissance architecture • Riario • Roman Inquisition • San Gimignano • San Giovanni dei Fiorentini • San Pietro in Vincoli • Santa Maria della Pace • Santa Maria sopra Minerva • Scaffolding • sculpture • Sebastiano del Piombo • Settignano • Sistine Chapel • Spirituali • Spoleto • St. Peter's Basilica • Strozzi family • titian • tomb • Tomb of Pope Julius II • Transept • travertine • Trebbiano • Urbino • Vatican City • Vestibule (architecture) • Via Flaminia • Villa I Tatti • Vittoria Colonna • woodcut
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19439-4 / 0691194394
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19439-4 / 9780691194394