A Brief General Bibliography for Michelangelo

N.B. This page is reserved for general discussions of the works of Michelangelo; his life, and aspects other than individual works. These are treated on the bibliography pages of the individual projects. Titles are listed by date of publication.
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• Recent Titles

Antonio Forcellino. Michelangelo: A Tormented Life. Polity, 2011.

Klaus Albrecht Schroder (Author), Achim Gnann (Editor). . Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius. Hatje Cantz, 2011. The catalogue of a major exhibition in Vienna.

William E. Wallace. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge U. Press, 2011.

Leonard Barkan. Michelangelo: A Life on Paper. Princeton, 2010.

John T. Spike. Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine: A Biography. Vendome Press, 2010.

Piers Dominic Britton. "Michelangelo and the rerum corporis in Vasari's Vite: the limits of physiognomy." Source, 28 (2009), 3: 13-18.

Andrew Graham-Dixon. Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. Skyhorse Pubs, 2009.

Frank Zoellner. Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture. New York, 2009.

William E. Wallace. Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture. New York, 2009.

Cammy Brothers. Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture. New Haven, 2008.

Paul Joannides. The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008.
Book Review: Duke Pesta. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LXI, no. 1 (Spring, 2008): 162-163.

Mary Bergstein. "Freud's Moses of Michelangelo: Vasari, Photography, and Art historical Practice." The Art Bulletin. Vol. LXXXVIII. no. 1 (March, 2006): 158-176.

Hugh Chapman. Michelangelo. New Haven, 2006.

Una Roman D'Elia. "Drawing Christ's Blood." Renaissance Quarterly. Vol.LIX, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 90-129.

Ascanio Condivi. Charles Holroyd (Translator), Dr. Charles Robertson (Foreword). The Life of Michelangelo. Pallas Athene, 2007.

Hugo Chapman. Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master. New Haven, 2005.
Book Review: Patricia Emison. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LIX, no. 2 (Summer, 2006): 508-509. "...this is, quite simply, the best availale volume on Michelangelo..." (508)

Cristina Acidini Luchinat. Michelangelo Scultore. Milan, 2005.
Book Review: Jonathan K. Nelson. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LX, no. 2 (Summer, 2007): 539-540.

Eric Scigliano. Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara. A very knowledgable exploration by the author, whose family worked in the quarries.

Patricia A. Emison. Creating the "Divine" Artist from Dante to Michelangelo. Leiden and Boston, 2004.
Book Review: Robert W. Gaston. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LVIII, no. 1 (Spring, 2005): 197-198.

David Franklin, ed. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence. Yale University Press, 2005.
Book Review: Melinda Hegarty. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LIX, no. 2 (Summer, 2006): 508-509. "This catalogue memorializes an ambitious, highly significant exhibition which challenged our perceptions of the nature of art in Florence in the first half of the sixteenth century". (508)

Deborah Parker. "The Role of Letters in Biographies of Michelangelo." Renaissance Studies. Vol. LVIII, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 91-126.

Frank Bruni. The Warts on Michelangelo: The Man Was a Miser NY Times, January 21, 2003. Supposed relevations about how Michelangelo was not a perfect person.

Alan P. Darr, ed. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. New Haven and London, 2002.
Book Review: Evelyn Welch. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LVII, no. 1 (Spring, 2004): 206-207.

Francis Ames-Lewis and Paul Joannides, eds. Reactions to the Master: Michelangelo's Effect on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century. Aldershot, 2003.
Book Review: Bernadine Barnes, Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LVII, no. 3 (Fall, 2004): 993-995.

Franca Falletti and Jonathan Katz Nelson, eds. Venere e Amore: Michelangelo e la nuova bellezza ideale = Venus and love: Michelangelo and the new ideal of beauty. Florence, 2002.

Rona Goffen. Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.
Book Review: Marcia Hall. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LVII, no. 1 (Spring, 2004): 200-201.

Stephen J. Campbell. "Fare una Cosa Morta Parer Viva": Michelangelo, Rooso, and the (Un)Divinity of Art." The Art Bulletin. Vol. LXXXIV, no. 4 (December, 2002): 596-620.

Timothy Clifford. "A candelabrum by Michelangelo: a discovery at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York." Apollo. Vol. 156 (2002) No. 487: 30-40.

Rab Hatfield. The Wealth of Michelangelo. Rome, 2002.
Book Review: Julia DeLancey. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. LVII, no. 1 (Spring, 2004): 207-209.

Fredrika Jacobs. "(Dis)assembling Marsyas, Michelangelo, and the Accademia del Disegno." Art Bulletin. Vol.LXXXIV no.3 (September, 2002): 426-448.

Paul Barolsky. "Michelangelo and the image of the artist as prince." In: Basilike eikon. Roy Eriksen, ed. (Collana di studi sul Rinascimento: 4) 2001: 30-35.

Ralph Lieberman. "Regarding Michelangelo's Bacchus." Artibus et historiae vol. 43 (2001): 65-74.

Letizia Treves. "Daniele da Volterra and Michelangelo: a collaborative relationship." Apollo. Vol. 154 (2001) No. 474: 36-45.

Michelangelo and John Frederick Nims. The Complete Poems of Michelangelo. Chicago, 2000.

Alexander Nagel. Michelangelo and the Reform of Art. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Fredrika H. Jacobs. "Aretino and Micchelangelo, Dolce and Titian: Femmina, Masculo, Grazia." Art Bulletin 82 (2000): 51-67.

James H. Beck. Three worlds of Michelangelo. New York, 1999.

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Cristina Acidini Luchinat, et al, eds. Giovinezza di Michelangelo. Florence, 1999. N.B. There are many reviews of this exhibition available.

Rupert Hodson. Michelangelo: Sculptor. Philio Wilson Pubs, 1999.

James M. Saslow. "Michelangelo: sculpture, sex, and gender." In: Looking at Italian Renaissance sculpture. Sarah Blake MacHam, editor. 1999: 223-245.

George Bull. Michelangelo: A Biography. St Martin's Griffin, 1998.

Joanne Snow-Smith. "Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early >i>oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image." In: Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art. Ed. by Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers. Aldershot, 1998: 147-163.

William E. Wallace. Michelangelo: the complete sculpture, painting, architecture. Levin [sic] 1998.

Charles de Tolnay, et al. The Complete work of Michelangelo. New York, 1997.

Pierluigi De Vecchi and Gianluigi Colalucci. Michelangelo: The Vatican Frescoes. Abbeville Press, 1997.

Lisa Pon. "Michelangelo's Lives: sixteenth-century books by Vasari, Condivi, and others." The sixteenth century journal. Vol. 27 (1997): 1015-1037.

James S. Ackerman. The architecture of Michelangelo. With a catalogue of Michelangelo's works by James S. Ackerman and John Newman. 2. ed. (1986), reprinted London, Penguin Books, 1995.

Michael H. Duffy. "Michelangelo and the Sublime in Romantic Art Criticism." Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol. 56, No. 2 (April, 1995): 217-238.

Don Riggs. "Was Michelangelo Born under Saturn?" The Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring, 1995): 99-121.

William Wallace, ed. Michelangelo: Selected scholarship in English. 4 vols. Hamden, CT, 1995.

Creighton Gilbert. Michelangelo on and off the Sistine Ceiling. New York, 1994.

William E. Wallace. Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Alexander Perrig. Michelangelo's Drawings: The Science of Attribution. New Haven, 1991.
Book Review: William E. Wallace. Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. XLV, no. 4 (Winter, 1992): 857-859.

Yael Even. "The Heroine as Hero in Michelangelo's Art." Women's Art Journal. 11 (1990): 29-33.

Serafina Hager, ed. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Renaissance Florence from 1500 to 1508. Washington, D. C., 1992. "Papers from a symposium sponsored by Georgetown University and held at the Charles Augustus Strong Center at Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Italy on June 14, 1989."

Craig Hugh Smyth, ed. Michelangelo Drawings. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1992. "Proceedings of the symposium 'Michelangelo drawings,' sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 7-8 October 1988."

Paola Barocchi, Katherine Loach Bramanti, and Renzo Ristori, eds. Il Carteggio indiretto di Michelangelo. 2 vols. Florence, 1988-1995.

• Classic Studies

Michael Hirst. "Michelangelo and his First Biographers." Proceedings of the British Academy: Letters and Memoirs. 94 (1986), 63-84.

Howard Hibbard and Shirley Hibbard. Michelangelo. Cambridge and Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 1985.

Caterina Pirina. "Michelangelo and the Music and Mathematics of his time." The Art Bulletin. Vol LXVII, no. 3 (September, 1985): 368-382.

Raffaello e Michelangelo. Anna Forlani Tempesti, ed. Exhib. catalogue. Florence, Casa Buonarroti. Florence, 1984.

Paola Barocchi and Renzo Ristori, eds. Il Carteggio di Michelangelo. 5 vols., Florence, 1963-1983.

Michelangelo Life Drawings. Dover Fine Art, History of Art, 1980.

Johannes Wilde. Six Lectures on Michelangelo. Oxford U. Press, 1979.

Charles de Tolnay. Michelangelo; sculptor, painter, architect. Princeton. 1965; 1975.

Paolo Carpeggiani, ed. Michelangelo Buonarroti e il Veneto: mostra didattica. Padua, 1975.

Luitpold Dussler, ed. Michelangelo-Bibliographie, 1927-1970. Wiesbaden, 1974.

Lucilla Bardeschi Ciulich and Paola Barocchi, eds. I ricordi di Michelangelo. Florence, 1970.

Charles de Tolnay. Casa Buonarroti: the sculptures of Michelangelo and the family collections. Die Casa Buonarroti: die Skulpturen des Michelangelo und die Sammlungen der Familie. Florence, 1970.

Ernst Steinman, ed., et al. Michelangelo Bibliographie I, 1510-1926. Hildesheim, 1967.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Il Carteggio di Michelangelo Edizione postuma di Giovanni Poggi, a cura di Paola Barocchi e Renzo Ristori [eds.] 1965.

Charles de Tolnay. The Art and Thought of Michelangelo. Werk und Weltbild des Michelangelo. New York, 1964.

Paola Barocchi. Michelangelo e la sua scuola: i disegni dell'Archivio Buonarroti. Florence, 1964.
Book Review: Michael Hirst. The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 105, no. 721 (April, 1963 [sic]): 166-171.

Paola Barocchi. Giorgio Vasari: la vita di Michelangelo nella redazione del 1550 e del 1568. 5 vols. Milan and Naples, 1962.

Paola Barocchi. Mostra di disegni di Michelangelo. (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi. Cataloghi. no. 13.). Florence, 1961.

Eugenio Battisti. "La critica a Michelangelo primo del Vasari." Rinascimento. 5 (1954), 117-132.

Charles de Tolnay. Michelangiolo: con 402 tavole fuori testo. Florence, 1951.

Giovanni Papini. Vita di Michelangiolo nella vita del suo tempo. Milan, 1949.

Robert J. Clements. "Michelangelo and the Doctrine of Imitation." Italica, 23 (1946), 90-99.

Charles de Tolnay. Michelangelo. Princeton, 1943ff. 5 vols: 1. Youth of Michelangelo (1941); 2. The Sistine ceiling (1945); 3. The Medici Chapel (1948); 4. The tomb of Julius II (1954); 5. The final period: Last Judgment, Frescoes of the Pauline Chapel, Last Pietas, 1960 (vol. 5). (1960). [listed under these areas on this bibliography]

Adolfo Venturi. Michelangelo. 2nd ed. Milan, 1943.

A. Venturi. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. [1901-1940] Vol. Xl: pt. II (Architettura del Cinquecento), 1-211.

John Addington Symonds. The Life of Michelangelo. 2 vols. London, 1893.

Ascanio Condivi. Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Some editions: E. Spina Barilla, ed., Milan, 1964; Helmut Wohl, ed., London, 1976; (Tabulae Artium 2) Giovanni Nencioni, ed. [Florence 1998]