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**A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's art** Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the __David__, the __Pietà__, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. Here we can read the artist's marginal notes to his most enduring masterpieces; workaday memos to assistants and pupils; poetry and letters; and achingly personal expressions of ambition and despair surely meant for nobody's eyes but his own. __Michelangelo: A Life on Paper__ is the first book to examine this intriguing interplay of words and images, providing insight into his life and work as never before. This sumptuous volume brings together more than two hundred stunning, museum-quality reproductions of Michelangelo's most private papers, many in color. Accompanying them is Leonard Barkan's vivid narrative, which explains the important role the written word played in the arti

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Author

Leonard Barkan

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691147666

Category

art

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

3.82 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14