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Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

byMiles J. Unger

Miles J. Unger tells Michelangelo's life through six defining masterpieces, using each work to illuminate a different stage of the artist's ambition and development. Sculpture, painting, and architecture emerge from fierce technical challenges, patronage conflicts, religious conviction, political upheaval, and rivalry in Renaissance Italy. Works such as the Pietà, David, Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Saint Peter's projects reveal a creator who demanded unusual independence while relying on powerful patrons. The book combines biography with close looking, showing how Michelangelo repeatedly transformed materials, scale, and the status of the artist himself.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

Jul 21, 2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

448

ISBN

9781451678789