Michelangelo On and Off the Sistine Ceiling
Creighton Gilbert's writings on Michelangelo are fundamental documents for both the interpretation of a particular artist and a more general understanding of Renaissance art. Gilbert is one of the finest and most lucid interpreters of this immensely complex and intriguing artist and his time. Michelangelo: On and Off the Sistine Ceiling brings together and illustrates a selection of Professor Gilbert's new writings and most important papers on Michelangelo. The volume begins with an overview of all of Michelangelo's work - in painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture - to provide the chief facts and special characteristics of his life and work. It is then divided into two parts. The first contains essays on Michelangelo's frescoes on the Sistine Ceiling, including "The Proportion of Women", "The Ancestors", "Titian and the Reversed Cartoons of Michelangelo", and "On the Absolute Dates of the Parts of the Sistine Ceiling". In the second part, Professor Gilbert turns to the greater context of Michelangelo's world - Florentine art at the turn of the 16th century and the influences between Michelangelo and his artist contemporar
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence, Volume 2
The artistic genius of Michelangelo () is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pietà at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works of art in the world. Michelangelo's life has been the subject of many biographies over the centuries, but it was not until the appearance of John Addington Symonds's The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, in , that a biographer had complete access to the artist's family archives.
The Buonarroti archives were to be available to the public with the passing of the last family member, but even when that event occurred, in , material from the archives remained closely guarded and only fragments emerged through the hands of family friends. The Italian government, predisposed to Symonds for his impeccable scholarship of Renaissance art, gave Symonds full access to the Buonarroti archives in the s, the first independent scholar
Creighton E. Gilbert
Full Name: Gilbert, Creighton E.
Other Names:
Gender: male
Date Born:
Date Died: 06 April
Place Born: Durham, NC, USA
Place Died: West Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
Home Country/ies: United States
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, and Renaissance
Career(s): educators
Overview
Cornell and Yale professor of the Italian Renaissance and Michelangelo. Gilbert was the son of Allan H. Gilbert () and Katharine Everett (Gilbert) (), both professors at Duke University. His mother was a distinguished aesthetician for whom a dormitory at Duke is named. The younger Gilbert grew up in Durham, NC, attending the public schools (where he learned Latin as a requirement) and various undergraduate colleges including Duke University, , Johns Hopkins University, , and New York University where he received a B.A. in He pursued graduate work at New York University, teaching as an instructor in the department of art history at Emory University, Atlanta, GA in and the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, the following year. He remained at Louisville until except for a year as Fulbright professor, University of Rome in H
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