The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Authors
- Stone, Irving
- Publisher
- SIGNET BOOKS
- Tags
- art , general fiction , classics
- ISBN
- 9780451126436
- Date
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.90 MB
- Lang
- en
His time — the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, the all-powerful d Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola...
His love — the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love, his greatest love — the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna...
His genius — a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known....
> MICHELANGELO BUONAROTI
creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St. Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's great new book.