"Michelangelo & Sebastiano" by Matthias Wivel

Michelangelo & Sebastiano Matthias Wivel, Costanza Barbieri, Piers Baker-Bates, Paul Joannides, Silvia Danesi Squarzina, Allison Goudie, Minna Moore Ede, Jennifer Sliwka, Timothy Verdon

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 15 Mar 2017
ISBN:: 9781857096095
Imprint:: National Gallery London
Dimensions:: 272 pages: 279 x 229mm
Illustrations:: 180 color illus.

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The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance

Through most of Michelangelo’s working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1541). The two men met in Rome in 1511, shortly after Sebastiano’s arrival from his native city, and while Michelangelo was based in Florence from 1516 to 1534 Sebastiano remained one of his Roman confidants, painting several works after partial designs by him. This landmark publication is about the artists’ extraordinary professional alliance and the friendship that underpinned it. It situates them in the dramatic context of their time, tracing their evolving artistic relationship through more than three decades of creative dialogue.

Matthias Wivel and other leading scholars investigate Michelangelo’s profound influence on Sebastiano and the Venetian artist’s highly original interpretation of his friend’s formal and thematic concerns. The lavishly illustrated text examines their shared preoccupation with the depiction of death and resurrection, primarily in the life of Christ, through a close analysis of drawings, paintings, and sculpture. The book also brings the austerely beautiful work of Sebastiano to a new audience, offering a reappraisal of this less famous but most accomplished artist.

Matthias Wivel is curator of 16th-century Italian paintings at the National Gallery, London.