{"title":"Michelangelo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"michelangelos-design-principles-particularly-in-relation-to-those-of-raphael","title":"Michelangelo's Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on Michelangelo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a safe in Munich, in the basement of the Central Institute for Art History. Hidden for decades among folders and administrative files was Panofsky's thesis on Michelangelo―originally submitted to Hamburg University in March of 1920, abandoned when Panofsky fled Hitler's Germany in 1934, and thought to have been destroyed in the Allied bombings. A century on, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelangelo's Design Principles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e makes this remarkable work available for the first time in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasting Panofsky's thought in an entirely new light, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelangelo's Design Principles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the legendary scholar's only book-length examination of the art of the Italian Renaissance. He provides a compelling analysis of Michelangelo's artistic style and deftly compares it with that of Raphael, situating both Renaissance masters in the broader context of Western art. This illuminating book offers unique perspectives on Panofsky's early intellectual development and the state of research on Michelangelo and the High Renaissance at a period of transition in art history, when formalist readings of artworks began to take precedence over a biographical approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing an introduction by Gerda Panofsky that discusses the history of the manuscript and the significance of its rediscovery, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelangelo's Design Principles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a crucial link between Panofsky's formalist training as a young art historian and his later work in iconology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44661447033090,"sku":"BK-PUP-MDP-001-DE","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_0517_327404b2-3a82-4c41-8710-9e9750208dc1.jpg?v=1791732847"},{"product_id":"young-michelangelo-the-path-to-the-sistine","title":"Young Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. Spike surveys Michelangelo's early life from birth to his early thirties, probing the thinking, artistic evolution and yearnings of a young man thoroughly convinced of his own exceptional talent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpike explores Michelangelo's involvement in the most troubling controversies of his age, and recreates Florence and Rome with vivid sketches of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo, Julius II and Machiavelli. This is a prodigiously informative and compelling account that will fulfil the need for a major Michelangelo biography for this generation and many to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gerald Duckworth \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45824102727938,"sku":"BK-GDC-YMPTS-001-B","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6335_29d42dbb-0682-4acb-b040-2bff7855c4ac.jpg?v=1791717926"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/michelangelo.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}