Michelangelo's design principles, particularly in relation to those of Raphael /

"In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a safe in Munich, in the basement of the Central Institute for Art History. Hidden for decades among folders and administrative files was Panofsky's thesis on Michelangelo-originally submitted to Hamburg Un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 (Author)
Other Authors: Panofsky-Soergel, Gerda, 1929- (Editor), Spooner, Joseph (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Premises-Material Histories: Raphael and the Works of Michelangelo
  • Michelangelo and the Works of Other Masters
  • Part 2: Inferences-Stylistic Analyses: Section 1. The Representation of the Individual Figure in Art: The Design of the Body in Classic Art, Especially Raphael (The Principle of Centred Unfolding)
  • The Design of the Body in Michelangelo (The Principles of Centred Unfolding and Cubic Constraint in Conflict)
  • The Organization of Form in the Plane Countercheck: The 'Single-Viewpoint Character' of Michelangelo's Sculpture
  • The Conception of Man as Regards the Constitution of his Psyche
  • Bibliography (reconstructed by Gerda Panofsky)
  • Appendix 1: Other Arrangements of the Material
  • Appendix 2: Notes on the Draft Designs for the Façade of San Lorenzo, Florence
  • List of Non-German Expressions (compiled by the translator).