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(MICHELANGELO). Poeschke, Joachim. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996. First American Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Art Monograph. Fine/Fine. 272pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography and artist biographies. "By the time Michelangelo died in 1564, his powerful narrative realism and secular treatment of the idealized human body had liberated a generation of Italian sculptors. Among those featured in this book are adventurer-poet Benvenuto Cellini, Florentine master Giovanni Rustici, ordained priest Giovanni Montorsoli and the underrated Pierino da Vinci (nephew of Leonardo). A new humanism animated works such as Jacopo Sansovino's bronze statue of Peace torching a helmet and suit of armor and Tullio Lombardo's serene marble Adam. This erudite, fresh overview of Italian sculpture of the late Renaissance by University of Dusseldorf art historian Poeschke features fifty-two full-page color plates and three hundred and forty-seven halftones newly photographed by Albert Hirmer and Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer with commentaries, plus an introductory essay and biographical profiles of twenty sculptors". A pristine copy. 0-8109-4276-3 Inventory Number: 014088