Relive the intense struggle of Michelangelo in his restless search for Truth and Beauty. Set in the turbulent world of 14th- and 15th-century Italy with its plotting princes, warring popes, brilliant artists and authors, there is indeed a new awakening that reshapes the future of Europe and Western civilization. Michelangelo embraced and struggled with all that faced him in this Renaissance period. Irving Stone has “painted the portrait of a supreme craftsman and created a cyclorama of one of the world’s most astounding ages” in a biographical novel that captures the scope, high drama, intensity, and fury of one of the world’s foremost artists. Meet the sculptor of David and the Pieta, the painter of the Sistine Chapel and the architect of the Dome for St. Peter’s up close and personal.
Optional Reading: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
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