Sebastiano Del Piombo and Michelangelo: The Compass and the Mirror (Museums at the Crossroads) (English and Italian Edition) [Paperback] Wivel, Matthias and Burns, Emily. This item is unavailable.Sebastiano Del Piombo and Michelangelo: The Compass and the Mirror (Museums at the Crossroads) (English and Italian Edition) [Paperback] Wivel, Matthias and Burns, Emily

The collaboration between Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) and Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), is among the most extraordinary artistic partnerships of the early modern period. It produced works of startling originality, crucial to the development of the so-called High Renaissance in the first decades of the sixteenth century. It was arguably Michelangelos most creative collaboration, helping him refine motifs and narrative strategies, and it proved determining for Sebastianos development of a monumental, spiritually invested idiom whose influence became a touchstone for religious art deep into the following century, and for principles of painterly abstraction beyond. Inspired by the exhibition Michelangelo & Sebastiano, mounted at The National Gallery in London in 2017, this book unites a group of international scholars in reflection on the two artists, their collaboration and its wider significance.

Matthias Wivel, PhD, is Curator of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings at the National Gallery, London. He was the curator of the major 2017 exhibition Michelangelo & Sebastiano, as well as the primary author and editor of the attendant catalogue. He has published widely on Venetian drawing, painting and printmaking and has recently, in 2016, co-edited a special issue of Artibus et Historiae dedicated to Prof. Paul Joannides.