Michaelangelo: Selected Readings

by Wallace,William

• ISBN13: 9780815337959
• ISBN10: 0815337957
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Michelangelo: Selected Readings is the long condensation of the five volume English article collection of Michelangelo's life. Selections include: Life and Early Works; The Sistine Chapel; San Lorenzo; Tomb of Julius II and Other Work in Rome; and Drawings, Poetry, and Miscellaneous Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
LIFE AND EARLY WORKS
Michelangelo, Vasari, and Condivi	1	(18)
Johannes Wilde
Michelangelo's Political Opinions	19	(42)
Charles de Tolnay
The Location of Michelangelo's David: The Meeting of January 25, 1504	61	(20)
Saul Levine
David's Scowl	81	(12)
David Summers
Michelangelo: Battle of Cascina	93	(20)
Cecil Gould
THE SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING
The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel	113	(38)
Johannes Wilde
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling	151	(24)
Sven Sandstrom
A Re-reading of the Sistine Ceiling	175	(20)
Staale Sinding-Larsen
Bramante, Michelangelo and the Sistine Ceiling	195	(22)
Charles Robertson
Michelangelo's Assistants in the Sistine Chapel	217	(14)
William E. Wallace
Metaphorical Meaning in the Sistine Ceiling	231	(4)
Paul Barolsky
Cardinal Alidosi, Michelangelo, and the Sistine Ceiling	235	(16)
James Beck
Finishing the Sistine	251	(24)
David Cast
FLORENCE: 1516-1534
Drawings as Documents: The Problem of the San Lorenzo Facade	275	(16)
Caroline Elam
The Meaning of Michelangelo's Medici Chapel	291	(12)
Frederick Hartt
Texts and Contexts of the Medici Chapel	303	(20)
Creighton E. Gilbert
The Liturgical Function of Michelangelo's Medici Chapel	323	(18)
L.D. Ettlinger
The Laurenziana Vestibule as a Functional Solution	341	(14)
Staale Sinding-Larsen
Michelangelo's Design for the Biblioteca Laurenziana	355	(26)
Ralph Lieberman
Michelangelo's ``Victory''	381	(22)
Johannes Wilde
ROME: 1534-1564
Michelangelo's Last Judgment: Resurrection of the Body and Predestination	403	(7)
Marcia B. Hall
Michelangelo's Crucifixion of St. Peter: Notes on the Identification of the Locale of the Action	410	(19)
Philipp Fehl
Narrative and Religious Expression in Michelangelo's Pauline Chapel	429	(16)
William E. Wallace
Giannotti, Michelangelo and the Cult of Brutus	445	(18)
D.J. Gordon
Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus?	463	(14)
Wolfgang Stechow
Michelangelo's ``Theory'' of Architecture	477	(16)
James S. Ackerman
Michelangelo and the Porta Pia	493	(12)
Elisabeth B. MacDougall
DRAWINGS, POETRY, AND MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES
``Primitivism'' in the Late Drawings of Michelangelo: The Master's Construction of an Old-age Style	505	(18)
Paul Joannides
The Poetry of Michelangelo	523	(20)
Walter Pater
Translator's Foreword to the Second Edition	543	(16)
Creighton Gilbert
The Neoplatonic Movement and Michelangelo	559	(74)
Erwin Panofsky
Michelangelo on Effort and Rapidity in Art	633	(11)
Robert J. Clements
Michelangelo's Unfinished Works	644	(8)
Juergen Schulz
Michelangelo and the Human Form: His Knowledge and Use of Anatomy	652	(16)
James Elkins
The Metamorphoses of Michelangelo	668	(11)
Paul Barolsky
Acknowledgments	679