Michelangelo : The Drawings of a Genius

by Klaus Albrecht Schröder

Michelangelo's drawings endowed human physique with an expressive musculature that remains to be rivaled in its feeling for corporeal articulation. His drawings of male nudes in particular, fraught as they are with tempestuous longing, project both tension and pliancy, and a compelling sense of health in the exertions and torque of bodies; he was also readily able to bring contrary qualities of grace and swiftness to depictions of women and cherubim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 377572589X
• ISBN13: 9783775725897
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 1.5" x 9.5"