Michelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master

Author(s): Carolyn Vaughan

Art

Michelangelo's Notebooks is an up-close celebration and record of the artists sketches, architectural drawings, letters, and his most intimate love poems.

In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work.
Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which went on to become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all-time.Organized chronologically, this collection combines the artist's own words with his sketches and finished artwork. His letters about the Sistine Chapel and Pope Julius, for example, will be illustrated with sketches he would have been working on at the time he was writing. The writing and art is selected by Carolyn Vaughan, former editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who provides fascinating commentary and insights into the material throughout the book.


Product Information

Carolyn Vaughan is a former editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She has edited dozens of exhibition catalogues and compiled numbers of books. She is also the author of Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh: Gifts of the Magi; Invitation to Ballet; and three FANDEX Guides: The Great Western Painters, First Ladies, and New York City.

General Fields

  • : 9781579129798
  • : Hachette Books
  • : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
  • : 0.748427
  • : May 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United States
  • : May 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Carolyn Vaughan
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 709.2
  • : 384
  • : 200 drawings and illustrations in 2 and 4 colour