San Antonio College Library

"The Poetry of Michelangelo offers a unique insight into the mind and heart of one of the greatest artists of all time, and is a notable literary achievement in its own right. This book provides an invaluable tool for gaining access to this major cultural and literary source; it lays out the broad chronological evolution of the poetry; and above all, through a close analysis of the individual poems and a concluding overview, it clarifies both the...

"Michelangelo was a master draftsman whose striking and powerful drawings are not only an important part of his artistic heritage in their own right but are also a means of viewing his designs that have not otherwise survived. In this book Michael Hirst describes and analyzes Michelangelo`s drawings in light of the many purposes for which the artist made them, thereby reaching for the first time a full understanding of their character and appearance....

Issued in a case. "Bibliographical note": pages 150-151.

"Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter and architect, is among the few people recognized as a genius in their own time. He is also the first major artist in the Western tradition to have left a significant body of poetry." "Written mainly in the form of sonnets, madrigals and quatrains, the poems encompass love, beauty, moral endeavour, the quest for salvation, and the ravages of death and time. They reveal a highly vulnerable personality, dependent...

Drawings which demonstrate the various stages and many phases of his work.