Foreword; Key dates; 1 Introduction; 2 Early Formation 1475-1501; 3 Florence 1500-1504; 4 Rome 1505-1516; 5 The Return to Florence 1516-34; 6 The Return to Rome 1534-41; 7 The Final Decades; Bibliography; Index.
Hugo Chapman is an Associate Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum. He is author of Padua in the 1450s: Marco Zoppo and his Contemporaries (1998) and co-author of Old Master Drawings from the Malcolm Collection (1996) and Drawings by Correggio and Parmigianino (2000).
Accompanying a unique British Museum exhibition (showing until Jun. 2006), this generously illustrated catalog by art historian Chapman (associate keeper, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, British Museum; Raphael: From Urbino to Rome) features nearly one-sixth of the 633 surviving drawings believed to be attributed to one of the greatest and most creative Italian Renaissance painters, sculptors, architects, and poets, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Mostly drawn from the world-renowned collections of paper works at the British (London), Ashmolean (Oxford), and Teylers (Haarlem, the Netherlands) museums, these 90 drawings range from quickly rendered preliminary studies to more completed works. While not an exhibition catalog in the traditional sense-it lacks a separate section of entries on showcased works-this chronologically organized text is easy to read, informative, and scholarly. It focuses mainly on the political, social, and historical contexts for Michelangelo's works and addresses issues of technique, connoisseurship, authorship, and provenance. Two appendixes provide springboards for further study and research. Intended for diverse audiences, this insightfully written and significant book is highly recommended for academic, special, and large public libraries with specialized Italian Renaissance art book collections.-Cheryl Ann Lajos, Free Lib. of Philadelphia Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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