Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes and political settings, by people who brought their o[...]

Definitive account of the architectural work of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564). This monograph presents 31 of his projects, some built, some unrealized, beginning with his early works in Rome at the start of the 16th-century. The book continues with his work in Florence betwee[...]

The invasion and occupation of Iraq rank among the most controversial and complex issues in international law in recent history. This volume of documents covers the occupation of Iraq from the planning stages of the invasion of Iraq in early 2002 to the transfer of governing authority to the Iraqi I[...]

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the[...]

Michelangelo and Raphael, in spite of their strongly contrasting characters, have many points of contact as draughtsmen. Looking to Leonardo, who had pioneered new techniques, they transformed the practice and status of drawing, using it to achieve the same expressive and affecting ends as painting [...]

THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI By John Addington Symonds This is one of the classic studies of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance genius, by one of the finest writers on art in modern times, John Addington Symonds. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti is a fascinating, elegantly-writte[...]

Freuds Beziehung zur Kunst ist nicht das Überbleibsel schöngeistiger Gymnasiastenschwärmereien oder bildungsbürgerliche Konvention. Vielmehr hat er, wie der renommierte Freud-Forscher und Kulturhistoriker Peter Gay in der Einleitung zeigt, die Künstler schon früh als unentbehrliche intellektue[...]

Leidenschaft, Besessenheit, Herausforderung und hochste Kreativitat: Mehr als 40 Jahre lang hat der Bildhauer Michelangelo an der Ausfuhrung des Grabmals fur Papst Julius II. und den dazugehorigen Statuen gearbeitet, ohne es allerdings vollenden zu konnen. Dieses Grabmal ist das Projekt in Michelang[...]

During the Renaissance, the great homosexuals, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael, transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. From their art, ambiguous beings were born, half man, half woman; female b[...]