Michelangelo
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with German reading ability interested in Renaissance art history
- Students of art history who need early texts on Michelangelo
- Advanced learners using German art texts as language-reading material
- Researchers who need public-domain electronic texts for quotation checking or edition comparison
Not a good fit for
- Readers who do not know German and want only Chinese popular art books
- Readers of art-book type expecting many high-resolution plates and detailed work-by-work analysis
- Professional researchers who need the latest scholarship and archaeological-style verification
Reading tips
- Before reading, skim a chronology of Michelangelo's major works to establish basic coordinates.
- Read alongside art books or museum online collections to make up for the lack of plates.
- Note chapter by chapter the author's judgments on style and biography for comparison with modern research.
- German learners can close-read a short section each day and compile common art-history vocabulary.
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About the author
Hermann Knackfuss (1848–1915) was a writer on art history active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; details of his life are limited in publicly available sources. Nine of his works are held in this collection, most of them devoted to major Western painters, including Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Dürer, Frans Hals, Velázquez, Titian, Murillo, and A. von Menzel. These books are chiefly artist biographies and commentaries on their works, addressed to general readers. His writing is plain and clear, concerned with tracing each painter's creative development and artistic characteristics while giving attention to the historical context. Rather than pursuing abstruse scholarship, he emphasized the transmission of knowledge and guidance in appreciation, which gives his work a representative place among the art popularizations of his time and still makes it a useful basic reference for understanding these painters' lives and works.
