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Michelangelo

Edited by William E. Wallace

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About the Book

Michelangelo Buonarroti achieved such renown in his lifetime that he was widely known and celebrated as Il Divino, or the Divine One. In 500 years, his fame has scarcely diminished. Michelangelo is generally recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time, a universal genius in all fields of visual creativity-sculpture, painting, and architecture-as well as a widely admired poet.

Much has been written on Michelangelo. This five-volume series reproduces some 100 articles in English, selected from a broad range of books and journals. The collection is both accessible to the general reader and useful to the specialist, offering a representative sample of old and new commentary on the artist and his work.

There are close to 100 photographs in each volume. This collection also presents the artwork which illustrated the books and articles from which it is drawn-some 500 black-and-white photographs in all.

About the Author(s)

William E. Wallace received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York and is currently an Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis. A former fellow at Harvard University's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence (1990-91), he has published extensively on Michelangelo and his contemporaries. His works include Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (1994).