Michelangelo - Drawing Gallery series Author:Paul Joannides The Drawing Gallery series, co-published by the Musée du Louvre and 5 Continents Editions, provides great access for the first time in an elegant, easy-to-handle format, to one of the richest and most prestigious collections in the world. The first volume of the new series is devoted to Michelangelo (1475-1564). The Louvre collection is do... more »ubtless one of the worlds most fascinating, for it contains the drawings Michelangelo executed during his youth, and most moving, those of his old age. Michelangelo worshipped beauty, therefore he worshipped virtue: powerful, manly beauty, sometimes soft, sometimes rugged, definitely athletic, nevertheless graceful and suspended in uncertainty. This fascinating book presents one of the most superb collections of Michelangelos sketches. Included is a scholarly essay on the subject by Paul Joannides as well as a comprehensive chronology of Michelangelos life. Sixty-two plates are presented, each one accompanied by a detailed entry concerning such things as materials used, the size of the sketch, provenance where known, and the purposes for which the drawings were made (preparatory sketches, copies, projects).« less