Madonna of the Steps
Encyclopedia
Madonna of the stairs is a relief
by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, created around 1491.
's Lives in the 1568 edition.
Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane...
by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, created around 1491.
History
The first citation that Madonna of the stairs was a Michelangelo sculpture was in Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
's Lives in the 1568 edition.
External links
- Madonna of the stairs - From the Official Site of Casa BuonarrotiCasa BuonarrotiCasa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence. The building was a property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo, which he left to his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti. The house was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger...