Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer

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Review “[A] labor of love catalog. . . . Nearly every drawing in the Met show is a work sheet. The artist makes  sketch, rotates it to make a second, turns it over and adds yet another. Images on any given sheet might include bodybuilders, saints, architectural elevations, a pornographic doodle, a man screaming, a verse from Petrarch, a beloved face. To a genius, monuments are made of any and all of these.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times“Bambach’s intriguing book-length essay—the main event in a typically imposing Met catalogue, which also features specialized studies by other scholars and a formidable critical apparatus—views Michelangelo’s sprawling practice through the concept of disegno, an Italian term for both a physical drawing and its underlying idea. This reading of Michelangelo makes the well-known story of the master feel fresh.”—Christopher Lyon, Bookforum Read more About the Author Carmen C. Bambach is curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Read more

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A comprehensive and enlightening text accompanied by exquisite images.

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