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Michelangelo - A Life in Six Masterpieces (Paperback)
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Michelangelo - A Life in Six Masterpieces (Paperback)
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Among the immortals-Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso-Michelangelo
stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but 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 and promoting the novel idea that it was
the artist, rather than the lord who paid for it, who was creative
force behind the work. Miles Unger narrates the astonishing life of
this driven and difficult man through six of his greatest
masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the
medium, from the Pieta Michelangelo carved as a brash young man, to
the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man tested by
personal trials. Throughout the course of his career he explored
the full range of human possibility. In the gargantuan David he
depicts Man in the glory of his youth, while in the tombs he carved
for the Medici he offers a sustained meditation on death and the
afterlife. In the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of
Creation, from the perfection of God's initial procreative act to
the corruption introduced by His imperfect children. In 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. Peter's in a final tribute to his God. A work of deep
artistic understanding, Miles Unger's Michelangelobrings to life
the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose
artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after 500 years.
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