Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits

by Edith Balas

For many years scholars have been aware that Michelangelo included his own image in his art. In this study, Edith Balas discusses two previously unrecognized double self-portraits. The earliest of these, a statue known as the Victory, was a private project in which an aging Michelangelo of depicted himself surmounted by an idealized alter ego, a figure associated with his younger self, his beloved friend Tommaso Cavalieri, and the David and Goliath...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887484174
• ISBN13: 9780887484179
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.