Michelangelo : a study in the nature of art / Adrian Stokes ; with a new introduction by Richard Wollheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokes, Adrian, 1902-1972.

Series:

Routledge classics.

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564--Criticism and interpretation.

Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564--Psychology.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most complete he ever wrote, presenting an understanding of the great artist that no one subsequently could afford to ignore. Stokes brings to bear in this work not only twenty-five years' study and appreciation of Italian Renaissance art and of aesthetics, but also a unique psychological perspective, as he explains in his introduction, which enables him to uncover the depths of the artist's pers

Contents:

Cover; Michelangelo: A Study in the Nature of Art; Copyright; CONTENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; Part I Introductory; 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION; 2 SYNOPSIS OF MICHELANGELO'S LIFE AND KNOWN WORKS (OTHER THAN DRAWINGS AND POEMS); 3 MICHELANGELO AND HIS FAMILY; NOTES TO PART I; Part II Visual Works; NOTES TO PART II; Part III The Poems; NOTES TO PART III; Appendices; I A NOTE ON ICONOGRAPHY; II THE MEDICI CHAPEL; INDEX

Notes:

Cover title ; Michelangelo.

Originally published: London : Tavistock Publications, 1955.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-07097-0

1-283-88569-7

1-135-07098-9

0-203-44104-4

9780203441046

OCLC:

823389351