- › Imago Christi
- › Caterina de' Medici, regina e mecenate
- › Deus caritas est
- › Canova. L'invenzione della bellezza
- › Michelangelo. La dotta mano
- › The photographs
- › Printing the photographs
- › The drawings
- › The paper
- › The velvet
- › The marble
- › The binding
- › The deluxe box
- › 33 times Michelangelo
- › Michelangelo. La dotta mano in the world
- › Mundus Novus
At the very heart of Michelangelo. La dotta mano, a total work of art in book form, is Michelangelo's sculptural oeuvre. It is thanks to the wisdom of modern, new artificers of creativity and genius that the Renaissance artist par excellence now comes alive in a work of art which is at once contemporary and timeless: a tangible sign that the past ideal of factura has indeed returned, untiring proof of civilization and beauty alike, necessarily to be handed down to future generations.
The words chosen to tell the story about the figure of Michelangelo are those of Giorgio Vasari from Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori. Vasari presents a dynamic and in-depth portrait of this most eminent artist, whom he describes to be the very best in Western history, the embodiment of a profound sense of humanitas which becomes art and beauty, as it is precisely through art and beauty that the artist seeks to redeem the human condition.
Printing the texts meant choosing the very finest of printers, a modern one, but likewise someone strongly rooted in the tradition of a nearly six-hundred-year-old trade. We again turned to the printer's shop owned and run by Jacopo Steffenini and located in Milan, this time to print the texts in Bodoni typeface.
