Today Michelangelo\'s painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable.
This book encourages today\'s viewers to take a fresh look at Michelangelo\'s work..
Michelangelo lived in a Time when the development of prints and published art criticism changed the nature of the viewing public in ways that foreshadow our own media culture.
This book brings the Viewer back into the development of Michelangelo\'s work, and gives emphasis to the differences between viewers in specific settings.
Michelangelo\'s consideration of his audience changed throughout his career: sometimes he produced work for conventional religious settings, and at other times he was given unprecedented freedom by open-minded patrons.
The original setting is reconstructed for works that have been moved, modified or left incomplete.
In this engaging book, Bernadine Barnes brings together new research to show how Michelangelo\'s art was seen in its own time.
They would move through spaces and past sculpture, and they might make comparisons to other objects nearby.
Viewers of Michelangelo\'s Time would experience the work under specific lighting conditions and from particular positions.
Paintings and sculptures were rarely seen in isolation; instead they were seen as part of rituals and ceremonies.
But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes and political settings, by people who brought their own needs and expectations to his work.
Today Michelangelo\'s painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable
