MICHELANGELO AND THE SISTINE CHAPEL
Book ID/图书代码： 10010007B18024
English Summary/英文概要： Five hundred years ago the legendary Renaissance genius, Michelangelo (1475-1564), put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation. As he started work on his vast fresco cycle for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in the autumn of 1508, he began putting into pictures the awe-inspiring legends recounted in the Book of Genesis. But for the viewer looking up into Michelangelo’s painted sky, with its visions of an elemental universe, this was to be just the first of a series of unprecedentedly original images. These depictions of swooping, gesticulating, flying, muscular figures reach their climax in The Creation of Adam - a depiction of the very origins of Man that has been rightly celebrated, for centuries, as the quintessential masterpiece of the Renaissance.
Yet the painting of the Sistine Chapel, for all its magnificence, came at a considerable human cost. It would take Michelangelo four years of long and bitter toil to complete his masterpiece, goaded all the while by his volatile, impatient patron, Julius II - known as the "Warrior Pope", in allusion both to his military conquests and aggressive temperament. The two men came to blows on more than one occasion, the artist harbouring a lifelong grudge over the abuse of what his friend and biographer Giorgio Vasari called his "divine genius", not to mention the damage the labours caused to his eyes, neck and back.
In his new study of Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel, Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the fascinating human story behind its creation. He analyses its many layers of meaning and teases out the multitude of ambiguities that lurk within its imagery of timeless magnificence. This is a retelling of the story of the Sistine Chapel for modern times, and an essential companion guide for one of the artistic wonders of the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 五百年前,文艺复兴的天才传奇式人物,米开朗基罗大笔一挥,开始了他雄心勃勃的创作生涯. 当1508年的秋天，他开始着手创作西斯廷教堂顶部壁画时，他也就开始了将《创世纪》中记叙的令人敬畏的人物通过图画表现出来的进程。但对于观赏者来说，米开朗基罗笔下的天空有一种原始宇宙的视野，而这仅仅是他一系列的无可比拟的原创形象的开端。这些形象形态各异，或从高空俯冲，或打着手势，或翱翔苍穹，身体矫健。亚当的出现标志着其创作达到顶峰。亚当是人类的始祖，他的赫赫有名是无可争议的。好几个世纪，米开朗基罗笔下的亚当都是被公认的文艺复兴的伟大杰作。西斯廷教堂的壁画的确够壮丽，但它的问世得益于作者付出了相当大的代价。米开朗基罗整整四年，呕心沥血，最终完成了这幅举世无双的佳作。他的赞助人朱利叶斯二世急躁，反复无常，一直催促他。朱利叶斯二世人称“战士教皇”，一是由于他的军事征伐，二是由于他的挑衅性格。这两个人不只一次发生争执。他的朋友，也是传记记者Giorgio Vasari说人们都称米开朗基罗“神圣的天才”，但这个艺术家自己却对此一直怀有抱怨，更不要说拼命工作对他的眼睛，脖子和背部造成的损害。安德鲁 格哈姆-迪克森在他对米开朗基罗西斯廷教堂壁画的最新研究中，讲述了伟大创作背后不为人知的故事。他分析了绘画的多层含义，但同时也嘲弄了形象中隐藏的过多的模糊性，尽管这些人物的伟大是与世长存的。这是对西斯廷教堂故事的现代重述，也是鉴赏这一世界艺术奇迹必不可少的指南。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed ’A History of British Art’, ’Renaissance’ and ’Art of Eternity’, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. Since 2006, Andrew has also been the face of the visual arts on BBC2’s flagship cultural programme, The Culture Show. For more than twenty years he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and, more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph, writing reviews as well as the popular weekly column ’In the Picture’. He has written a number of acclaimed books, on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present, including ’Howard Hodgkin’, ’A History of British Art’, ’Paper Museum’ and ’Renaissance’. He has won numerous awards for writing and broadcasting, including the Arts Journalist of the Year Award three years in a row, and the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. He is married with three children and lives in London.
安德鲁 格哈姆-迪克森是艺术评论界的领头人之一，也是BBC艺术之艺术系列节目的主持人，包括“英国艺术史”，“文艺复兴”，“永恒的艺术”，他还著了不计其数的有关艺术和艺术家的个人评论。自2006年，安德鲁接手BBC2的关于视觉艺术的金牌文化类节目：文化秀。20多年里，他已经出版了关于艺术的每周专栏，先是在《独立报》，后又转向《星期日电讯报》。他还在“在画中”上撰写评论和潮流每周专栏。他写了许多广受好评的书，主题涉及中世纪绘画和雕塑，现代艺术，包括“霍华德 霍奇金”，“英国艺术史”，“纸博物馆”，“文艺复兴”。他还获过多项写作和播音大奖，包括连续三年荣获“年度艺术记者奖”，艺术批评霍桑登奖。他已婚，有三个孩子，现居于伦敦。
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