Michelangelo atlas
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Il Prigione Ribelle or the Rebellious Slave, by Michelangelo Buonarroti or Bonarroti, 1513 - 1514,...
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Renaissance - Sculpture: Rebellious Prigione - rear - Louvre Museum, Paris, France
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We know a great deal about Michelangelo: we have his poetry, his letters, the biographies written by Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari—individuals who knew him well—and many comments made by friends, acquaintances, and enemies. Of course we also have his art and architecture, which we can assess with our own eyes. That art, studied in relationship to the sixteenth-century writings about the artist’s life and his works, offers a rich heritage that is still open to new interpretation, despite decades of scholarship on the topic.
This volume, which publishes three lectures—“The Metamorphoses of Marble,” “The Finger of God,” and “The Gravity of Art”—given by Paul Barolsky at the Georgia Museum of Art, is small only in size and price. What Barolsky shared with his audience in Athens and shares with us in this volume is a wealth of new insights into Michelangelo as a man and an artist. The author’s ideas are in part based on his analysis of the words used by Vasari, Condivi, and others to describe Michelangelo and his works. Barolsky ruminates over each word, examining its source, its
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