Kirsten Bradbury Livres

Michelangelo was recognized as a great artist early in his long and prolific career. Along with a small band of contemporaries, he was responsible for sixteenth-century Florence becoming the center of a movement of artists that has permanently enriched western culture. Essential Michelangelo looks in detail at all aspects of his work, with comprehensive commentary on 120 examples of his pieces. While many of these are among his most famous, others may be less well known, but they are all equally essential to the development of Michelangelo's artistic philosophy.

This text examines Dali and his work in detail. The book highlights the progress of his career and shows how he returned time and time again to subjects that both facsinated and intimidated him."

Introduces a new chronological way of examining the major art movements of the Western world over the last two thousand years. It exams the roots of rt in prehistory and provide important examples of work from 240 leading artists in terms of their school, period, technique, and vision.