Michelangelo and beyond

Abstract

This exhibition catalog charts the evolution of figure drawing in the western world, starting with Michelangelo, and explores his enormous influence over his contemporaries and later generations.

Contents

Preface / Klaus Albrecht Schröder -- Michelangelo, or The birth of a canon / Achim Gnann -- Before Michelangelo, or Nudity by template / Achim Gnann -- Michelangelo's beginnings, or The rebirth of the body / Achim Gnann -- The Battle of Cascina, or Bodies in tumult / Achim Gnann -- After Laocoön: 1506 / Lydia Eder -- Naked in the Sistine Chapel / Achim Gnann -- Raphael : under the spell of Michelangelo / Achim Gnann -- The death of Christ, or The beauty of the immortal / Achim Gnann -- Of struggle and passions / Achim Gnann -- Michelangelo's ideal: the woman in the man / Lydia Eder -- The suffering god / Achim Gnann -- Mad about Michelangelo / Achim Gnann -- Un sacco di noce, or Nature distorted / Lydia Eder -- La serpentinata : beautiful from all sides / Lydia Eder -- The body, measured and planned / Constanze Johanna Malissa -- The strongest man, a demigod / Eva Michel -- Rembrandt : the anti-Michelangelo, or The naked truth / Eva Michel -- Rubens, or The return of Michelangelo / Eva Michel -- "Michelangesque," or The canon in full bloom / Lydia Eder -- The female, or "The dark side of the moon" / Martina Pippal -- Female body, male witch panic / Martina Pippal -- "...must not, will not, cannot..." / Martina Pippal -- The rebirth of Venus / Martina Pippal -- For the fairest of them all, or The judgment of Paris / Martina Pippal -- Terra incognita : woman, the unknown being / Martina Pippal -- The cult of beauty and the aesthetics of the ugly / Martina Pippal.