Michelangelo's Inner Anatomies

Michelangelo's Inner Anatomies
Author: Christian K. Kleinbub
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Anatomy
ISBN: 9780271083780

The liver and desire -- The heart under siege -- The love of the heart -- Faith in the heart -- The brain, judgment, and movement.

In Michelangelo's Mirror

In Michelangelo's Mirror
Author: Morten Steen Hansen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271056401

"Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

Flesh and Bones

Flesh and Bones
Author: Monique Kornell
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606067699

This illustrated volume examines the different methods artists and anatomists used to reveal the inner workings of the human body and evoke wonder in its form. For centuries, anatomy was a fundamental component of artistic training, as artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo sought to skillfully portray the human form. In Europe, illustrations that captured the complex structure of the body—spectacularly realized by anatomists, artists, and printmakers in early atlases such as Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of 1543—found an audience with both medical practitioners and artists. Flesh and Bones examines the inventive ways anatomy has been presented from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century, including an animated corpse displaying its own body for study, anatomized antique sculpture, spectacular life-size prints, delicate paper flaps, and 3-D stereoscopic photographs. Drawn primarily from the vast holdings of the Getty Research Institute, the over 150 striking images, which range in media from woodcut to neon, reveal the uncanny beauty of the human body under the skin

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy
Author: Domenico Laurenza
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2012
Genre: Anatomy, Artistic
ISBN: 1588394565

Known as the "century of anatomy," the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists--including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy--turned to the study of anatomy to inform their own drawings and sculptures, some by working directly with anatomists and helping to illustrate their discoveries. The result was a rich corpus of art objects detailing the workings of the human body with an accuracy never before attained. "Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy "examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings--both in drawings and in three dimensions--constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.

Vision and the Visionary in Raphael

Vision and the Visionary in Raphael
Author: Christian K. Kleinbub
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780271037042

"Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction"--Provided by publisher.

Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
Author: Cammy Brothers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Michelangelo's fame as a painter and sculptor tends to eclipse his reputation as an architect, but his impact here was just as profound. In this 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. By following the steps by which Michelangelo arrived at his extraordinary inventions, the author questions conventional notions of spontaneity as a function of genius. Rather, she 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.

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Author: Lia Markey
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271078227

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture. In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a “vicarious conquest” of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court. More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey’s insight.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Author: Pina Ragionieri
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The family home of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Casa Buonarroti boasts the world's largest collection of Michelangelo's drawings and personal papers. Now a private foundation and museum, the Casa Buonarroti is also well known for art and antiquities collected by Michelangelo's family members. This volume includes drawings usually kept in storage to protect them from damage to damaging light and air, among them sketches and preparatory studies for such important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici tombs. It provides a view of Michelangelo through personal sketches, writings and studies from his notebooks, as well as insights into his family through painting, sculpture and graphic works.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Author: Emily J. Peters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9780300246865

"Michelangelo: Mind of the Master will be published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 09/22/2019 to 01/05/2020 and the J. Paul Getty Museum from 02/25 to 06/07/2019. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Teylers Museum and features works from its collection"--