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! Read ! Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Michelangelo: His Epic Life "A very scholarly read" according to the dude. If you are intrigued by the life and works of Michael Angelo include this book in your quest to learn. Gayford's research efforts are delivered to the reader in an academic yet personal style. He will take you to 16th century Italy and introduce you to Michael Angelo. A complex and very human artistic genius. I look forward to reading this book again with a notebook next to me. Enjoy this like you enjoyed your freshman European History class!. Epic
| Title | : | Michelangelo: His Epic Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1905490542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
Here Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.. Like a hero of classical mythology, such as Hercules, whose statue Michelangelo carved in his youth, he was subject to constant trials and labors. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic center of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. A new biography of Michelangelo by the acclaimed author of Man with a Blue Scarf and The Yellow House There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. Few of his works—including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David, and the Last Judgment—were small or easy to accomplish
"A very scholarly read" according to the dude. If you are intrigued by the life and works of Michael Angelo include this book in your quest to learn. Gayford's research efforts are delivered to the reader in an academic yet personal style. He will take you to 16th century Italy and introduce you to Michael Angelo. A complex and very human artistic genius. I look forward to reading this book again with a notebook next to me. Enjoy this like you enjoyed your freshman European History class!. Epic work for an epic man Zelalem Dawit lovely, lovely piece of work. Gayford really has a way of transplanting you to the 15th and 16th Centuries before placing you almost square in the great man's shoes.You marvel along with Lorenzo de Medici at the early signs of genius, you feel his intensely reclusive and inscrutable nature so deeply you feel at one with him. You sympathize with his struggles with his piety and sexuality. You grow almost parallel to him and will be moved by his genius for lack of a better word.really it doesnt even come close to what he achieved. his pieta and Moses are awe inspiring, humbling,healing, and his frescoes are just brilliant.Martin calls the pi. Larry David plays Michelangelo? My review will be quite different than others although I agreed with most things written. It is well-written and extremely informative, especially if your knowledge of 15th-16th century Italy is as limited as mine was. What I wanted to add is how funny the book was. Michelangelo was a very difficult person; some might say pig-headed. He constantly would commit to works that he wouldn't finish; often had no intention of finishing (although he was generally not very quick at paying back any up-front fees). Fired almost every person he hired and he found it impossible to work with anyone near his equal for any length of time. Thought that eve
"An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research." —Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
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