| #2370143 in eBooks | 2012-01-17 | 2012-01-17 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| His genius knew no bounds|By Martin P|How anyone could master so many art forms I'll never know. While we mere mortals can only balk at the artistic feats `Il Divino' produced during his life, this book shows just much Michelangelo managed to achieve artistically.
Split into three main parts, the book charts Michelangelo's output as a sculpture, painter and architect|About the Author|
|Eugène Müntz (1845-1902) was a member of the Institut de France and curator of the collections of l’Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and has been one of the most influential specialists on the Italian Renaissance.
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes in the naked bodies ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Michelangelo (Best of) | Eugène Müntz. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
