Michelangelo: Six lectures, Oxford studies in the history of art and architecture, softcover, index, 194 pages, condition: very good.

Wilde is now generally recognized as the scholar who has had the most profound insight into the work of Michelangelo.

Johannes Wilde 1891 1970) was a Hungarian art historian and teacher of art history.  He was a noted expert on the drawings of Michelangelo. Wilde was a pioneer of the use of X-rays as a tool for the study of both the creation and the state of conservation of paintings. From 1948 to 1958 he was deputy director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.