Michelangelo and beyond / edited by Eva Michel and Klaus Albrecht Schr�oder ; with a preface by Klaus Albrecht Schr�oder and texts by Elisabeth Dutz, Lydia Eder, Achim Gnann, Constanze Johanna Malissa, Eva Michel, Martina Pippal, and Klaus Albrecht Shr�oder.
"This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Michelangelo and Beyond, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, September 15, 2023-January 14, 2024."--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-262).
Contents:
The cult of beauty and the aesthetics of the ugly / Martina Pippal. Michelangelo, or The birth of a canon / Achim Gnann -- Before Michelangelo, or Nudity by template / Achim Gnann -- Michelangelo's beginnings, or The rebirth of the body / Achim Gnann -- The Battle of Cascina, or Bodies in tumult / Achim Gnann -- After Laoco�on: 1506 / Lydia Eder -- Naked in the Sistine Chapel / Achim Gnann -- Raphael : under the spell of Michelangelo / Achim Gnann -- The death of Christ, or The beauty of the immortal / Achim Gnann -- Of struggle and passions / Achim Gnann -- Michelangelo's ideal: the woman in the man / Lydia Eder -- The suffering god / Achim Gnann -- Mad about Michelangelo / Achim Gnann -- Un sacco di noce, or Nature distorted / Lydia Eder -- La serpentinata : beautiful from all sides / Lydia Eder -- The body, measured and planned / Constanze Johanna Malissa -- The strongest man, a demigod / Eva Michel -- Rembrandt : the anti-Michelangelo, or The naked truth / Eva Michel -- Rubens, or The return of Michelangelo / Eva Michel -- "Michelangesque," or The canon in full bloom / Lydia Eder -- The female, or "The dark side of the moon" / Martina Pippal -- Female body, male witch panic / Martina Pippal -- "...must not, will not, cannot..." / Martina Pippal -- The rebirth of Venus / Martina Pippal -- For the fairest of them all, or The judgment of Paris / Martina Pippal -- Terra incognita : woman, the unknown being / Martina Pippal -- The cult of beauty and the aesthetics of the ugly / Martina Pippal.
Summary:
This exhibition catalog charts the evolution of figure drawing in the western world, starting with Michelangelo, and explores his enormous influence over his contemporaries and later generations.
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