Let Us Go Then, You and I
Title | Let Us Go Then, You and I PDF eBook |
Author | T. S. Eliot |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2009-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780571256266 |
Let Us Go Then, You and I is a new edition of T. S. Eliot's selected poems, published to celebrate his nomination as the 'Nation's Favourite Poet' in a BBC poll for National Poetry Day 2009.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Title | The Complete Poems of Michelangelo PDF eBook |
Author | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
Publisher | Modern Romance Classics |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
New translations by Joseph Tusiani of Michelangelo’s little-known but highly memorable verse.
Michelangelo
Title | Michelangelo PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Barkan |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0691147663 |
"In a series of elegant, often provocative essays covering the entire are of Michelangelo's visual signing, Barkan's analytic perspective elicits new connections and new levels of significance that have eluded his predecessors. Thanks to Barkan, future students of Michelangelo's graphic work will have to look and think harder.---Irving Lavin, professor emernus, Institute for Advanced Study --
Oil and Marble
Title | Oil and Marble PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Storey |
Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1628726393 |
"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Pure Colour
Title | Pure Colour PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Heti |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2022-02-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374603960 |
Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
Michelangelo, God's Architect
Title | Michelangelo, God's Architect PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Wallace |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0691212759 |
"As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life. 'Michelangelo, God's Architect' is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter's Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter's project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering. Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razor-sharp intellect, Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of Church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start over. In this richly illustrated book, leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelo's biography, revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman. The challenge of building St. Peter's deepened Michelangelo's faith, Wallace shows. Fighting the intrigues of Church politics and his own declining health, Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived. And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design."--Provided by publisher.
The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art
Title | The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271039916 |
Sequel to Barolsky's Vasari trilogy and pendant volume in particular to Michelangelo's Nose, this book continues the author's examination of the poetic imagination of Michelangelo's autobiography in relation to his art and poetry. With his usual brio, Barolsky suggests that Michelangelo's concerns with poetic origins are linked in subtle, diverse ways to the meanings of Botticelli's Primavera, Signorelli's Pan, Piero di Cosimo's Prometheus pictures, Raphael's Parnassus, and Titan's Fete Champetre. Focusing on the unexpected importance for Michelangelo of the pastoral, Barolsky illuminates the role of Ovid both in the artist's biography and in his theory and practice of art. Conceiving his book as a contribution to our understanding of poetic imagination in the age of the Renaissance, Barolsky elaborates here on his previous discussion of Renaissance, Barolsky elaborates here on his previous discussion of Renaissance biography in the tradition of Boccaccio's fables.