Volume 28, Number 15 · October 8, 1981
On Michelangelo's Mind
By Michael Baxandall
Michelangelo and the Language of Art
by David Summers
Princeton University Press, 658, 68 illustrations pp., $16.50 (paper)
This big book is first of all a study of the concepts Michelangelo might have brought to the making of paintings, sculpture, and architecture. It is an attempt to reconstruct that level of the artist's intellectual universe which he or, if not he, his friends could have put into words. The enterprise is the grand and romantic one of entering into Michelangelo's self-critical consciousness.
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