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Series
Cabinet des dessinsTechnical details
96 pages, paperback with flaps, 21 x 21 cm, 62 color plates.
Publication date
2003Period
16th centuryISBN French
88-7439-034-3
88-7439-034-3
ISBN English
88-7439-036-X
88-7439-036-X
ISBN Italian
88-7439-035-1
88-7439-035-1
English
French
Italian
The Musée du Louvre collection of Michelangelo’s drawings (1475-1564) is without a doubt one of the world's most fascinating, containing both the drawings made during his youth and the more moving sketches compiled in his later years. A powerful creative force during the Renaissance, Michelangelo, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, was also a prolific draughtsman. His first drawings were made as a child at the age of twelve!