Michelangelo's drawings offer a unique insight into how the artist worked and thought. They are beautiful artworks in their own right but also provide a crucial link between his work as a sculptor, painter and architect. Michelangelo was extraordinarily famous during his lifetime, so much so that other artists produced portraits of him and three biographies were written. His artistic achievements set him in a class apart from his contemporaries; after the death of his main rival Raphael in 1520, he was to dominate the Roman art world for more than four decades. His primary focus as an artist was the male body, and his drawings chart his relentless search to find poses that would most eloquently express the emotional and spiritual state of his subjects.
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Drawings by Michelangelo, from the British Museum.
1979, Pierpont Morgan Library
in English
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Bibliography: p. 109-111.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, Apr. 24-July 28, 1979.
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