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This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino ? a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer ? stumbled across some unpublished letters among the
papers of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabella d'Este and an extremely important figure in the Italian Renaissance. These letters comment on the paintings of Michelangelo in a way that is completely
at odds with what was to become the dominant critical tradition of Michelangelo scholarship, an inconsistency that set Forcellino off on a journey that took him to Dubrovnik, Oxford, New York and Niagara
Falls and culminated in the discovery of two magnificent paintings: Pieta with Mary and Two Angels, now in a private collection in America,
and Cavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an educational institution in England. Through a combination of careful historical research, extensive restoration and meticulous radiographic analysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these paintings can be traced back to the studio of Michelangelo.
This extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into question the received view of Michelangelo's work and fills in a missing piece in our understanding of one of the greatest artists of all time.
Table des matières
Chapter One - Niagara
Chapter Two - Mantua, 11 June 1546
Chapter Three - Between legends and documents
Chapter Four - A movable panel
Chapter Five - Isabel Archer
Chapter Six - The meeting
Chapter Seven - The wax seals
Chapter Eight - Flying back from New York
Chapter Nine - Fabio Tempestivi
Chapter Ten - The melancholic exile
Chapter Eleven - The last survivor
Chapter Twelve - Ragusa 1573
Chapter Thirteen - The Madonna's teeth
Chapter Fourteen - The hidden drawing
Chapter Fifteen - The Stone City
Chapter Sixteen - Tempestivi's funeral
Chapter Seventeen - The island of Sipan
Chapter Eighteen - Oxford
Chapter Nineteen - Back to Buffalo
Chapter Twenty - Restoration
Chapter Twenty-One - Pentimenti
A propos de l'auteur
Antonio Forcellino, geb. 1955, ist Renaissance-Forscher und Michelangelo-Experte. Als Restaurator hat Forcellino an vielen bedeutenden Werken der Kunstgeschichte gearbeitet. 1998 wurde er zum Chefrestaurator von Michelangelos Moses ernannt.
