Michelangelo: The Divine Genius

by Eugène Müntz

The legend of Michelangelo (1475-1564) has endured, undiminished, for five hundred years. Scholars such as Chateaubriand, Manzoni, and Rilke have seen in him a master of the renewal of Western art. Indeed, endowed with an almost superhuman creative genius, Michelangelo incarnates for us the “universal man” of the Italian Renaissance, and the quality and scope of his oeuvre is uncontested, not even by Leonardo da Vinci – works like his Pietà, David, and the Sistine Chapel frescos are the proof. How was he able, in so few years, to develop the methods behind a body of work worthy of his Greek predecessors? No-one has better examined the complexities of the man, the artist, and the age in which he lived than Eugene Müntz. His text, written in clear and pure style, is a literary work in itself, and it is accompanied here by illustrations of an exceptional quality.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

200 pages, Hardcover

First published December 6, 2005

About the author

Eugène Müntz était un historien de l'art français, spécialiste de la Renaissance italienne.

Eugène Müntz was a French art historian specialized in the Italian Renaissance.

Reviews

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read broken into three main periods of Michelangelo’s life, sculpture, painting, architecture.

Added a star for the incredible pictures and the linked index