Michelangelo Graphic Works Taschen

Michelangelo's impressive drawings

Over the centuries, few artists have earned such a world-wide reputation as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). From the 1530s to the present day, Michelangelo has been nicknamed Il Divinohis achievements as a sculptor, painter and architect are unparalleled, and his creations are among the world's best-known masterpieces of art.

This edition of the Bibliotheca Universalis dedicated to Michelangelo's graphic works bears witness to his masterful mastery of line, form and detail, whether in architectural studies or in anatomically perfect figures. The book offers some of michelangelo's best drawings held in museums and collections around the world and combines them with his own and combines them with his own notes and commentary: a superb approach to the artist's work in all its scope and ambition as well as to his creative process. A chapter with newly discovered or newly attributed drawings by Michelangelo shows a different perspective on the diversity of his graphic work.