Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

Name: Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780300124897

ISBN-10: 0300124899

ISBN-13: 9780300124897

Edition: 2007

Authors: Cammy Brothers

List price: $65.00

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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…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/23/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.92" wide x 1.14" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 3.190