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The genius of Michelangelo [digital videodisc] / William E. Wallace.

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Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, c2007.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Artists -- Italy -- Biography.

Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.

6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 260 pages ; 19 cm).

Disc 1. Who was Michelangelo? ; Aritist and aristocrat : Michelangelo's world ; An unconventional beginning ; Michelangelo's youth and early training ; Florence and Bologna in the early 1490s ; First visit to Rome and early patrons.

Disc 2. The Bacchus and the Pietà ; The return to Florence and the David ; The David and St. Matthew ; For the republic : the Battle of Cascina ; The Taddei Tondo and the Pitti Tondo ; The Doni Tondo.

Disc 3. Rome and the tomb of Julius II ; Bologna and the return to Rome ; The Sistine Chapel ; The Sistine Chapel, part 2 ; The Sistine Chapel, part 3 ; A story of marble.

Disc 4. The Medici Chapel sculpture ; The Medici Chapel sculpture, part 2 ; The Medici Chapel sculpture, part 3 ; The Laurentian Library ; Florence, a republic under siege, 1527-34 ; Inventing a new aesthetic : the Non-finito.

Disc 5. Michelangelo's drawings, 1520-40 ; The Last Judgment ; The Last Judgment, part 2 ; The Pauline Chapel ; The completion of the Julius tomb; poetry ; The Capitoline Hill projects; the Brutus.

Disc 6. The New St. Peter's Basilica ; Michelangelo's Roman architecture ; Michelangelo's Roman architecture, part 2 ; Piety and pity : the Florentine Pietà ; The Rondanini Pietà and the late poetry ; Death of Michelangelo : the master's legacy.

"The Pietà, the David, the Moses and the Sistine Chapel -- Michelangelo's genius is apparent in every medium he worked. In this course, internationally recognized Michelangelo expert, author, and professor William E. Wallace provides a fresh and insightful perspective on the life and work of Michelangelo, even including the Master's poetry. The 36 lectures feature more than 900 visuals, including stunning reproductions of the his sculptures, paintings, and architecture, as well as rough sketches, preparatory drawings, and photographs of the places he lived and worked"--Publisher's website.

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