I. Five hundred years of literary and artistic criticism in one book – Michelangelo Buonarroti is back

The book I want to talk to you about today came out a few years ago but this does not mean that it is not an excellent study tool capable of providing interesting food for thought: ‘Michelangelo, fortune of a myth. Five hundred years of literary and artistic criticism’ Of Eugenio Battisti.

Published by the prestigious Olschki Publishingthe volume collects Battisti’s studies, some of which have been published for the first time they tell the story of my mythification and what contributed, both in my time and in subsequent centuries, to increasing my fame.

Using literary sources and artistic criticism which has been put in black and white in five hundred years of history by various authors and scholars, Baptists traces interpretations and comments on existence and myth that have survived my mortal existence.

Starting from my contemporary Vasari up to the twentieth centurythe scholar has demonstrated how much the idea that people have had of me and of the works that I have produced in almost ninety years of life has changed over time.

There is no shortage of Battisti’s criticisms of the studies done previously which tended to pigeonhole me into very limited and limiting categories.

Roland for example he abundantly used terms such as ‘anomaly, contemptuousness, unfinished, deformed proportions, iconoclastic fury and contrast’ in his texts but Battisti believes that not only were they not sufficient to define my artistic poetics but that they were reductive and too narrow to encompass all of my production.

The book ‘Michelangelo, fortune of a myth. Five hundred years of literary and artistic criticism’ it also reports very little-known curiosities and fragments of texts that talk about me, practically unknown to the general public.

In short, it is one of those books that is worth having, reading and rereading in case of need.

For the moment, your always Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you and will meet you in the next posts and on social media.

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