Bernadine Barnes

Michelangelo in Print

Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In seeing printed reproductions as a form of response to Michelangelo's work, the author focuses on the choices that printmakers and publishers made as they selected which works would be reproduced and how they would be presented to various audiences.

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Michelangelo in Print is a readable narrative that pays special attention to the ways reproductive prints served the artist, printmakers, publishers, and audiences. Focusing on printed reproductions made during the sixteenth century, this study identifies prints as indicators of how Michelangelo's works became known, discussed, and integrated into art history. The volume includes a comprehensive checklist organized by the work reproduced

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780754663782
• ISBN-10: 0754663787
• Artikelnr.: 33377350

Autorenporträt

Bernadine Barnes is Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Michelangelo in fragments: prints after The Battle of Cascina and other works
The slow unveiling of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
From private to public: the presentation drawings in print
Private spaces made public: prints of The Last Judgment and the Pauline Chapel frescoes
Michelangelo among the ancients: prints of his Roman architecture
From sculpture to print
On seeing and describing
Conclusion
Checklist
Bibliography
Index