Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Asensio, Paco, editor

2002

Barcelona, teNeues, 80 p.

Resumen: The italian architect, sculptor, painter and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475-Roma 1564) is one of the key figures in the history of art. He began his profesional training under Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1488. From 1519 to 1534 he was commissioned to work on the family tombs of the Medicis, while other major Works resulted from his supervisión of the refurbishment of the buildings round the Capitol in Rome. The climax of his architectural career was the Dome of Saint Peter’s in the Vatican, created at the same time as his masterprice of painting in the Sistine Chapel, commissioned by his most important patrón, pope Julius II. A fresh new series about the mastersof classical architecture. Each volume in this eminently attractive series highlights the work of a renowned architect of the past centuries.