This art book by Georgia Illetschko deals with the Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti (6 1475-18.2.1475 3rd). The richly illustrated book is not intended as artistic reaction to the Renaissance artist, but the author is about human beings and their individual views on his work back to his environment and his time in the forefront of their considerations. Before you get to the content directory, you can deepen over many pages, first in sentences and also two poems by the great master, and various Depictions of individual works of delight. In these figures, there are also two detailed views of his Mamorstatue of David by 1501/1504, which I included in my review and am completely fascinated by it the shapely buttocks David. This is pure eroticism.
Of the sentences that I have read the beginning of the book that touched me the most below. "The beauty depends on the final goal in the elements that adapt to their purpose or destination best seen the beauty shine forth most "(Michelangelo). For long I've been thinking about this sentence and have come to the conclusion that this sentence is accurate to the Point and brings not only for the stone to be built from a sculpture does.
The book is divided into:
Introduction:-Io, Michelangniolo Buonarreto
Sculpture: The art of taking away, Michelangelo and the stone
Painting and Graphics: "I'm not Amplatz, nor I am a painter .
Architecture: In the service of the Creator-Michelangelo as architect
biography and overview of works
site of important works of literature
register.
The extensive introduction begins with the last letter, Michelangelo wrote of the 89 years old. Despite its dwindling forces of the old man is still in clear consciousness and enjoys the good Marzolino cheese. We learn in the episode, that was for the artist
dynastic thinking is important. This is reflected in the correspondence include statements that he turned over the years for which the survival of the family decisive bride search of his nephew Leonardo, (see: p. 38).
Michelangelo seems at first glance a little pfennigfuchserisch, as evidenced by records. Illetschko contends, however, that there really is a touching to observe the small things "A love of life in secular Form "that can eventually still feel the joy of the earthly, as the high style of the 'official' poems and letters already almost only anguish, frustration and the world sang of longing for the beyond, (see: p. 39)
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We learn further that there are few personal accounts that show the artist happy or even satisfied. To his nature to have a lifetime of whining, nagging, himself and his cause talk bad, too. The cause of which was a deeply superstitious purpose pessimism was by means of which he wanted to banish envy and the evil in which he had named it constantly (see: p. 40).
We learn that he from 1506 most of its fees in real estate, which are appeared to him as a safe and profitable investment, investing, which he managed with a tight hand. Although there were a lot of his family quarrels, he loved them, but more as an idea how to read on page 40. His family over he put his status-conscious detachment, a respected person of the day, while in the 1530s and 1540s meant that in the camaraderie of the men's friendships with fellow artists, poets and intellectuals, the philosophical depth as well as the plate-jokes crack, has felt very comfortable (see p. 41).
The author stresses, that the sour eccentric who was drawn by the contemporary biographer Ascanio, Condiv and Vasari, took up only one of Michelangelo's identities. It was, as mentioned already, a shield against its competitors. When he mutated from 1520 to the absolute rulers of the art, he does not fulfill any more orders, but from then on turned the grace of his art at will.
In the chapter that deals with sculpture, we learn at the outset that Michelangelo meant by what is happening and taking away the power of that which happens through
addition of that same painting. There are some in this chapter Sculptures shown and discussed, including his "David", which is characterized by ambition, size and certainty of victory, (see p. 73). For Michelangelo, the real work is already in the stone, and possibly lost nothing, if it is not completely exposed. The artist works in Unerbitterlichkeit into the individual stone and brings out the character of a piece.
about his skills as an architect you will also be informed very well. The first major architectural order Michelangelo turned 1515 the design of the facade of S. Lorenzo in Florence dar. 1546 he took over the supervision of St. Peter in Rome, which were only completed after his death. Impressed
me the double-sided image of the interior of the Medici Chapel, where Michelangelo worked from 1520 to 1534, but was still more the dome of St. Peter's, whose drummer zone the original drawings by Michelangelo.
The bibliography and overview of works is very clear and deserves praise.
This book I recommend to all those happy who want to not only learn about the work of Michelangelo, but also about the people.
Photos: Courtesy of Prestel Verlag,
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