Deborah Parker

Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Deborah Parker examines Michelangelo's use of language in his correspondence as a means of understanding the creative process of this extraordinary artist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780521761406
• ISBN-10: 0521761409
• Artikelnr.: 31192793

Autorenporträt

Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti - the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, as well as numerous others. The author of many articles, as well as the book Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The role of letters in biographies of Michelangelo
2. From word to image: epistolary rhetoric and artistic form
3. From experience to expression: representations of captivity in Michelangelo's art, poetry, and letters
4. Michelangelo's words: saying, doing, meaning.