Michelangelo

The Great Artists series launches with a quartet of paper-over-board biographies, including analysis and reproductions of their masterpieces, as well as timelines of important events during their lifetimes. Great Artists: Michelangelo by Roberto Carvalho de Magalhaes, for instance, features the sculpture David, for which Michelangelo ""employed all his knowledge of human anatomy and classical art,"" and The Creation of Adam, the famous scene on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Leonardo Da Vinci by Maria Teresa Zanobini Leoni takes a look at the Italian artist's The Last Supper and Mona Lisa (La Gioconda). Featured works in the study of the French Impressionist Claude Monet also by Magalhaes include The Poppies at Argenteuil and his series of oil paintings based on Rouen Cathedral. Paul Gauguin by Maria Siponta De Salvia examines the works of this French painter who lived in Tahiti for many years, including Two Women on the Beach and Ea Haere la Oe (Where Are You Going?). (Nov.)