Author: Summers, David
Title: Michelangelo and the Language of Art
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press (Limited Paperback Editions), 1981. Softcover. Pale blue-green wraps; xvii, 626 pp. with 16 unnumbered leaves of plates, bw illustrations. Taking the significant words and concepts used by Michelangelo and his contemporaries to discuss his art, Summers traces their evolution from classical antiquity through the traditions of philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and medieval artisanship in order to establish their meaning and interrelation during the Renaissance. "Taking significant words and concepts used by Michelangelo and his contemporaries to discuss his art--among them fantasia, difficultà, facilità, teribilità, ordine, grazia, and novità--David Summers traces their evolution from classical antiquity through the traditions of philosophy, rhetoric, poetry and medieval artisanship in order to establish their meaning and interrelation during the Renaissance. He draws on the wide range of primary and secondary sources surrounding Michelangelo, as well as upon the visual and iconographic evidence provided by his painting, sculpture and architecture."-- Cover page 4. VG- (scuffing to corners and wraps, pages are otherwise clean and clear) .

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