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Article: Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Michelangelo's accomplishments have weighed heavily on critics and scholars for over 500 years. Even before the artist's own death in 1564, his achievements had served both as inspiration and burden to those who tried to emulate or explicate his monumental creations. This complex relationship has, however, yielded fruitful results, providing us at last count with over 4,000 books and articles on the master. Surprisingly, only twelve percent of these have been in English. It is to this designated minority that Wallace has addressed himself.
The five volumes that comprise Wallace's edition of Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English represent a much needed ...