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.

• Recent Titles

Hugh Chapman. Michelangelo. New Haven, 2006.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ralph Lieberman. Artibus et historiae vol. 43 (2001), pp 65-74.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. Michelangelo. Cambridge and Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 1985.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A. Venturi. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. 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]