Michelangelo. Paintings, Sculptures and Architecture (Bibliotheca Universalis)

Purchased this book for a term paper for art history. It is loaded with drawings, photos in both black and white and full color of a fantastic amount, if not all, of Michelangelo's work. There are many color photos which fold out to provide full and luxurious detail of many of the works. If you like to read about the art and then refer to a color enlargement of the detail, this book is for you. I highly recommend this book.

beautiful pictures and written history. And so inexpensive. Highly recommend

Love it

This was a gift for someone who recently visited Italy. Small and compact and full of beautiful pictures.

Everybody should own this book for a complete illustration of Michelangelo's wizardry Excellent quality of the pictures

A small compact book, but I like it a lot. The pictures are good and beautiful. All color.

Great book, nicely written, handy size, full of pictures.

Nice book!

The media could not be loaded.  This is a great book and I'm sure people who would want a smaller, compact version of the larger Taschen books would love this. There are a couple of issues though: 1) sometimes a double-page spread artwork gets lost in the middle of the book, as the pages can't spread far enough to see the art; 2) there are a lot of smaller pictures, mainly nearing the end of the book, which makes it hard to see the details in the art. I've included a video flip-through of the book and some of my first impressions. I hope this will help anyone considering buying this book.

GOOD Points(4 stars):> Publishers: Taschen: very well known for producing really beautiful books; yet, inexpensively.> Extremely well written, and, very carefully researched by scholars...explaining all about Michelangelo life/history/times.> 800 pages thick 'huge' bible-like catalogue of Michelanglo's works; including, -> drawings -> paintings -> sculptures -> architecture -> poetry(some)> I liked seeing the full size picture reproductions both as: double page spreads/and, also, single page.BAD points(-1 star):> The A5 sized text is rather difficult to both see/read...instead, you have to hold the book up really close towards both your eyes.> On some pages, the text has to compete against the picture reproductions in order to go fill up page space...this results in picture reproductions being shown on only...half a page/or, quarter a page/or, less...which is far too small to be able to see the picture's really fine details, effectively?!CONCLUSION:If you were 'an artist'/or, even potential artist(like me)...then, I would very highly recommend you buy a much bigger format book, instead: A4/A3/basically, 'the bigger the better'....that's if you wish to both 'see/copy' from much clearer picture reproductions.If you want a compact, portable, well written, and, carefully documented huge 'catalogue' of the great Michelangelo's work...which one can very quickly dip into in order to: read/see/flick through...; then, this book is, well and truly, 'excellent'.

A edição em inglês tem uma escultura na capa, diferente da capa divulgada, que é em francês.O livro tem todas obras do Michelangelo, as fotos são em otimos tamanhos, muitas ocupam 2 paginas.

I wanted it for the art work and I couldn't have done it better my self. This book was just what I wanted with full inscription of the art as well which to me is a bonus. The art is photographed in high resolution which is absolutely fantastic and beautiful, a definite must have for your bookshelf. 10/10

This book was advertised as being in English. It is in FRENCH and the returns process is too difficult to understand.