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Michelangelo, drawing, and the invention of architecture / Cammy Brothers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brothers, Cammy, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural drawing--Italy--16th century.
- Architectural drawing.
- Italy.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564--Criticism and interpretation.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : 281 illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- "In this engaging and handsome book, Cammy Brothers takes an unusual approach to Michelangelo's architectural designs, arguing that they are best understood in terms of his experience as a painter and sculptor. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the built projects and considered the drawings only insofar as they illuminate those buildings, this book analyses his designs as an independent source of insight into the mechanisms of Michelangelo's imagination. Brothers gives equal weight to the unbuilt designs, and suggests that some of Michelangelo's most radical ideas remained on paper." "Brothers explores the idea of drawing as a mode of thinking, using its evidence to reconstruct the process by which Michelangelo arrived at new ideas. By turning the flexibility and fluidity of his figurative drawing methods to the subject of architecture, Michelangelo demonstrated how it could match the expressive possibilities of painting and sculpture"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Drawing, memory and invention
- Architecture, education, and the antique
- The figure and the frame
- Architecture as subject.
- Notes:
- College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, 2010
- Society of Architectural Historians Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, 2010
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on March 18, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780300260151
- 0300260156
- OCLC:
- 568950441
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