{"product_id":"michelangelos-painting-leo-steinberg-9780226482262","title":"Michelangelo's Painting: Selected Essays","description":"Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo's work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist's highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures elucidates many of Michelangelo's paintings, from frescoes in the Sistine Chapel to the\u003ci\u003e Conversion of St. Paul\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCrucifixion of St. Peter\u003c\/i\u003e, the artist's lesser-known works in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel; also included is a study of the relationship of the \u003ci\u003eDoni Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e to Leonardo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Steinberg's perceptions evolved from long, hard looking. Almost everything he wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo's rendering of figures, as well as their gestures and interrelations, conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. \u003ci\u003eMichelangelo's Painting\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg's writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leo Steinberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022648226X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226482262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 8.70w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"Leo Steinberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838250307839,"sku":"9780226482262","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f6317d6-35c4-4e7e-80cf-59502201a60a.jpg?v=1746589257","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/michelangelos-painting-leo-steinberg-9780226482262","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}