Volume 53, Number 7 · April 27, 2006
The Titan of Titans
By Ingrid D. Rowland
Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master
Catalog of the exhibition by Hugo Chapman
an exhibition at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands, October 5, 2005–January 8, 2006, and the British Museum, London, March 23–June 25, 2006
Yale University Press, 320 pp., $50.00
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
by James Hall
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 312 pp., $30.00
Michelangelo’s Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
by Eric Scigliano
Free Press, 352 pp., $26.00
One of the mysteries of the modern world is the intense personal sympathy many people seem to have for the stingy, crabbed, resentful Florentine sculptor whose real fame resides in only a handful of works: the Pietà in St. Peter's, the David in Florence, the Moses in Rome's Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, and a series of unfinished Captives in Florence and the Louvre. A handful of works it may be, but that handful is surely as illustrious as any in the history of Western art, and we feel so close to their maker that we address him freely by his first name: Michelangelo.
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