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Michelangelo : the Vatican frescoes / Pierluigi De Vecchi ; with an essay on the restoration by Gianluigi Colalucci.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection ND623.B9 D453 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Vecchi, Pierluigi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564--Criticism and interpretation.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
- Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance--Vatican City.
- Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Vatican City.
- Mural painting and decoration, Italian--Vatican City.
- Mural painting and decoration, Italian.
- Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City).
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press Pub., [1996]
- Summary:
- This complete handbook reveals the secrets of the hieroglyphic writing of the Nile Valley, which provides a still-vivid snapshot of the gods, the people, and the everyday life of the Ancient Egyptians. Both literal and highly lyrical, hieroglyphics bring alive a distant world, with descriptions of the natural environment, the art, the society, the religious beliefs, and even the philosophical basis of a culture that flourished 5,000 years ago. Presenting and explaining almost 600 of the figures used in the classic phase of Egypt's "sacred writing", this fascinating volume traces the origins and the meaning of each sign, as well as its graphic stylization. An opening essay reveals the secrets of the hieroglyphic system, including its development and its structural characteristics, and emphasizes the sacred, evocative, even magical power of the form, which - unlike our own abstract alphabet - is immediate and expressive. Concluding the book are a complete glossary, a bibliography, and an index, designed to make this book invaluable to the casual reader as well as the student and specialist.
- Notes:
- Includes fold-out pages to reveal other illustrations.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0789202328
- OCLC:
- 35249504
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