Condivi biography of michelangelo buonarroti
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The Life of Michelangelo
By Ascanio Condivi (1524 – 1574)
We have two biographies of Michelangelo from authors of his lifetime.
One from Giorgio Vasari, who included it in his “Vite”, the biographies of the artists of the Italian Renaissance published 1550.
The present one is from Ascanio Condivi, his disciple published in 1553.
Michelangelo was irritated against Vasari’s publication and wrote him a sarcastic letter: thanks for having included me with the dead.
Ascanio Condivi’s biography of his master was composed under his supervision and remains the reference, the most complete, precise, sure, and lively report ever composed. As his lärling would have received daily confidences and details no one else could know.
Michelangelo was not from a poor family he was proud of his noble ancestry. His father was educated but made but a modest income from an old estate he had inherited. Proud of his newborn son he had planned a literary education for hi
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Paperback – 145 x 115 mm – 240 pages
Forty-nine illustrations in colour
ISBN 9781843682615
Probably commissioned by Michelangelo himself from his fellow painter Ascanio Condivi, this biography presents an unprecedently något privat eller personligt view of the life and career of the most influential artist in the history of Western art.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon, and a touchstone for all artistic endeavour. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefined not only the possibilities of the imagination, but also of the image of the artist. He was the first artist to be the subject of a biography in his lifetime, with the publication of his life in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in 1550, where Michelangelo fryst vatten presented as the divinely inspired culmination of the history of art.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Michelangelo was dissatisfied with V
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The Life of Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon and a touchstone for all artistic endeavor. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefined not only the possibilities of the imagination, but also the very image of the artist. He was the first artist to be the subject of a biography in his lifetime, with the publication of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in 1550. Dissatisfied with Vasari's treatment, Michelangelo encouraged his close friend and fellow painter Ascanio Condivi to publish a rival biography. This compelling narrative of genius and its struggles in the treacherous world of Papal politics remains one of the most fascinating and influential texts in art history.