A unique look at the graphic oeuvre of the great Florentine artist, with masterpieces from museums from around the world. Spanning a wide range of his works, from youthful sketches to frescoes for the Sistine Chapel, and later crucifixion scenes.
Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground
Printmaking Genius of Mannerism
Rembrandts Landschaftszeichnungen sind faszinierend und umfassen etwa 260 Werke, die er während seiner Streifzüge durch Amsterdam und Umgebung schuf. Er hielt Bauerngehöfte, Kanäle und markante Gebäude fest, variierte mit Licht und Wetter und drückte sowohl innere Vorstellungen als auch die Schönheit der Natur aus.
The German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist Martin Noël (b. Berlin, 1956; d. Bonn, 2010) played a leading role in reviving the linocut and the woodcut, two techniques that had long been eclipsed by other media. In his large-format works on paper, he staked out a widely regarded and distinctive position in contemporary art. Released on occasion of the retrospective of his oeuvre at the Albertina, Vienna, this book presents an overview of the most important periods in the artist's creative evolution, with an emphasis on the woodcut carved into the printing plate and the woodblock's subsequent emancipation as an art object in its own right. Particular attention is paid to the application of ink to the surface and its painterly structure as well as the picture's migration from object to canvas. The resulting paintings are exemplary of Noël's late oeuvre. Martin Noël studied graphic art and painting at what is now the Cologne University of Arts and Sciences. His art garnered numerous prizes and other honors, including fellowships from Kunststiftung NRW, Stiftung Kunstfonds, and Letter Stiftung.
Michelangelo's drawings endowed human physique with an expressive musculature that remains to be rivaled in its feeling for corporeal articulation. His drawings of male nudes in particular, fraught as they are with tempestuous longing, project both tension and pliancy, and a compelling sense of health in the exertions and torque of bodies; he was also readily able to bring contrary qualities of grace and swiftness to depictions of women and cherubim. With over 300 color plates and extensive contextualizing scholarship, The Drawings of a Genius is the most complete treatment of this work ever published, and thus constitutes a publication of great importance. Masterpieces from the world's finest museums are gathered here, from the early studies for the "Battle of Cascina" and the studies for the Sistine Chapel frescoes, to the drawings for the tomb of Julius II, the Medici tombs, the drawings for Tommaso de' Cavalieri and the later crucifixion scenes; also addressed are those works whose authenticity has been subject to debate. Works by other artists, done after the master's sketches, further illuminate the enormous influence of Michelangelo's art.Painter, sculptor, poet, architect and engineer, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was both dauntingly prolific and relentlessly innovative in output. He sculpted two of his greatest works, the "Pieta" and "David," before he turned 30, and created two of the world's best-known paintings on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel in Rome--the creation scenes from "Genesis" and "The Last Judgment." Giorgio Vasari proposed that Michelangelo represented the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a view that has survived to this day.
Summary: Die Publikation spannt den Bogen von den Jugendwerken über die Entwürfe zur Schlacht von Cascina und die Fresken der Sixtinischen Kapelle bis hin zu den Geschenkblättern für Tommaso de| Cavalieri und den späten Kreuzigungsszenen. Gemälde anderer Künstler nach Entwürfen des Meisters veranschaulichen die Dimension und Wirkkraft seiner Kunst und zeigen ihn im Kontext seiner Zeit. Der von einigen Forschern angezweifelten Zuschreibung vieler Zeichnungen an Michelangelo wird kritisch entgegengetreten. Also available the official audioguide to the exhibition: "Kunst zum Hören: Michelangelo", 48 pages, 40 col. ill., hardcover, + CD, October 2010. (9783775727365). Exhibition: Albertina, Wien (8.10.2010 - 9.1.2011).
