Michelangelo's World

by J. Patrick Lewis

Overview

A biography of the filmmaker whose creative drive has led him to make many different kinds of movies, including Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568461670
Publisher:	The Creative Company
Publication date:	08/31/2007
Series:	Creative Editions Series
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction     7
Michelangelo's Birth (March 6, 1475)     8
Years of Youth (1485-1495)     11
Who Was Michelangelo?     13
On Friendship     15
Bonfire of the Vanities (1497)     17
The Pieta (1498-1500)     18
The David (1501-1504)     21
The Doni Tondo (c. 1504)     23
The Sistine Ceiling (1508-1512)     24
Painting on High (1508-1512)     29
Moses (c. 1513-1516)     31
On Love     33
Last Judgment (1536-1541)     34
St. Peter's (1546-1564)     36
Michelangelo's Death (February 18, 1564)     38
Bibliography     40

Editorial Reviews

Gr 7 Up
Lewis's effort to elucidate the life and times of Michelangelo through original sonnets is not entirely successful. This adulatory tribute encompasses the artist's birth and death, apprenticeship to Ghirlandaio, relationship to the Medici family and assorted popes and cardinals, major works, and love poems to two friends: one male, one female. The format is too brief to present much information, so sidebars-which block some of the art and prove redundant-attempt to fill the gaps. Most teens will not have the patience to work through the iambic pentameter, and considering the opacity of some of the references, comprehension will be compromised. While much of the art is handsomely reproduced, other pages suffer from lack of focus or poor color editing. Images are identified with a phrase, but novices will not know which art is actually by Michelangelo unless they search the fine print on the copyright page. A penetrating portrait by Etienne Delessert graces the cover, and a brief bibliography completes the volume. Several of Michelangelo's own poems and letters appear in Adele Richardson's Michelangelo (Creative Co., 2006); it has a stronger narrative and design, reference aids, and crisp illustrations. In both volumes, however, some Sistine Chapel details are devoid of their post-restoration vibrancy, depriving viewers of Michelangelo's marvelous palette.
—Wendy LukehartCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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