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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." After all, Michelangelo was not a painter-he was a sculptor....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines the relationships that shaped Michelangelo's first thirty years.
In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest artists and the places and people, Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli, that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike's masterful text probes the thinking, evolution, and desires of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the late-fifteenth to mid-sixteenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, whose first famous work, the Vatican Pieta, was displayed in St. Peter's Basilica when he was only twenty-five years old.
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