Contents as follows: Introduction / Christoph Luitpold Frommel - The reception of the tomb of Julius II from the sixteenth century to the present / Maria Forcellino - The tomb of Pope Julius II : genesis, reconstructions, and analyses / Christoph Luitpold Frommel. The book also includes catalogues of fifteen sculptures designed for the tomb and more than eighty related drawings, in addition to an extensive and up-to-date bibliography. A rich trove of documents in the original Latin and archaic Italian - many previously unpublished - relates the story firsthand through letters, contracts, and other records covering Michelangelo's travels, the purchase of the marble, the concerns that arose as work progressed, and numerous disagreements and negotiations. Alongside its in-depth handling of the monument, this volume traces Michelangelo's stylistic development over the course of his work on the tomb documents the dialogue between the artist and his great friend and exacting patron, Julius II (who died long before the work was finished) unravels the complicated relationship between the master and his assistants, who executed large parts of the design and sheds new light on the importance of Neoplatonism in Michelangelo's thinking, an influence that greatly shaped the tomb's most famous statue, the Moses, as well as the work as a whole. New post-restoration photography reveals the beauty of the tomb overall, its individual statues, and its myriad details. It was edited by Christoph Luitpold Frommel, one of the field's foremost scholars, who also acted as the lead consultant on the restoration campaign and wrote the book's main essay. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Ascanio Condivi, Michelangelo's authorized biographer, as "the tragedy of the tomb." This definitive book on the subject thoroughly documents the art of the tomb and each stage of its long and often fraught history, including its most recent restoration. In 1505 Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Item #179707 ISBN: 9781606065037 "A record of the history and conservation of Michelangelo's Tomb for Pope Julius II, written by principal members of the team of art historians and conservators who led the 1998-2003 restoration project"-Provided by publisher. Pictorial DJ, black cloth cover with silver lettering on spine. All items in are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Los Angeles: J.Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 - Criticism and interpretation.Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance - Italy - Rome.Conjectures on the relevance of history, the hegemony and limits of analysis, the physical manifestation of ideas, what it means to "finish" a project, and what constitutes a "work," are projected from the foundations of the tomb onto the making of architecture today. Problematic issues in the prevailing Twentieth Century analyses and reconstructions of the tomb are called into question and alternative approaches to establish a deeper understanding of the project are proposed. Explored as an embodied architectural treatise, the tomb reveals Michelangelo's dynamic process of creative making. The execution of this project would go on to intermittently occupy nearly half of Michelangelo's lifetime, making it a pivotal and paradigmatic work in the understanding of his opera. Finding its only full manifestation in the narratives of Vasari and Condivi, this tomb was the site of Michelangelo's first engagement with the making of architecture. The formal, temporal, and constructional intertwinings of this project are plumbed to create the foundation of this text.
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