Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: â€œThe one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turfâ€ (The Dallas Morning News).

Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse. Michelangelo was ambitious, egotistical, and difficult, but through the towering force of genius and through sheer pugnaciousness, he transformed the way we think about art.

Miles Unger narrates the life of this tormented genius through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the PietÃ carved by a brash young man of twenty-four, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man weighed down by the unimaginable suffering he had witnessed. In the gargantuan David he depicts Man in the glory of his youth, while in the tombs he carved for his Medici overlords he offers perhaps historyâ€™s most sustained meditation on death and the afterlife of the soul. In the vast expanse of the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of Creation. During the final decades of his life, his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel, he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peterâ€™s in a final tribute to his God.

â€œA deeply human tribute to one of the most accomplished and fascinating figures inthe history of Western cultureâ€ (The Boston Globe), Michelangelo brings to life the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after five hundred years.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-07-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-07-22
Format	Kindle eBook

Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

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