Michelangelo's sculpture : selected essays /

Michelangelo's sculpture : selected essays /

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Author / Creator:	Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xiv, 226 pages ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Essays by Leo Steinberg Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011. Essays. Selections. 2018.
Subject:	Michelangelo Buonarroti, -- 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation. Michelangelo Buonarroti, -- 1475-1564. Sculpture, Renaissance -- Italy. Sculpture -- Italy -- 16th century. Sculpture -- Italy -- 15th century. Sculpture. Sculpture, Renaissance. Italy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11798359

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Other authors / contributors:	Schwartz, Sheila, editor.
ISBN:	9780226482576 022648257X 9780226482606
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His works, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo's work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist's highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo's most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking.
Standard no.:	40028791196

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Richard Neer
The metaphors of love and birth in Michelangelo's Pietàs
The Roman Pietà: Michelangelo at twenty-three
Michelangelo's Medici Madonna and related works
Body and symbol in the Medici Madonna
Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà: the missing leg twenty years after
The Michelangelo next door
Shrinking Michelangelo
Michelangelo and the doctors
What would you ask Michelangelo?