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"This most extraordinary edition celebrates Michelangelo's graphic work with a selection of his most masterful and mesmerizing of drawings" Graphic beauty Breathtaking drawings Few artists can claim such tenacious fame across continents and centuries as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475�'1564). His achievements as a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect remain unrivalled and unique. This fresh edition celebrates the artist's graphic work, with a selection of his most masterful and mesmerizing drawings. Gathered from some of the world's most prestigious collections, these works show the full ambition and reach of Michelangelo's practice, spanning architectural elements, facial expressions, and countless, meticulous anatomical drawings. Whether finely tuned or left unfinished, each and every drawing testifies to the artist's dedicated scrutiny of the world around him and his compelling mastery of line, form, and detail. There is an intimacy in these works, too. As differ

Introduces a new chronological way of examining the major art movements of the Western world over the last two thousand years. It exams the roots of rt in prehistory and provide important examples of work from 240 leading artists in terms of their school, period, technique, and vision.

Michelangelo was recognized as a great artist early in his long and prolific career. Along with a small band of contemporaries, he was responsible for sixteenth-century Florence becoming the center of a movement of artists that has permanently enriched western culture. Essential Michelangelo looks in detail at all aspects of his work, with comprehensive commentary on 120 examples of his pieces. While many of these are among his most famous, others may be less well known, but they are all equally essential to the development of Michelangelo's artistic philosophy.

This text examines Dali and his work in detail. The book highlights the progress of his career and shows how he returned time and time again to subjects that both facsinated and intimidated him."