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Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Gayford, Martin

ISBN: 9780241299425 PUBLISHER: Fig Tree FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 200 PUBLICATION DATE: 2.03.2017 DIMENSIONS: 23.1 x 14.8 x 4.7 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. 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 centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. 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. Like a hero of classical mythology such as Hercules, whose statue Michelangelo carved in his youth he was subject to constant trials and labours. In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.'It is a measure of [Michelangelo's] magnitude, and Gayford's skill in capturing it, that you finish this book wishing that Michelangelo had lived longer and created more' Rachel Spence, FT 'One of our most distinguished writers on what makes modern artists tick . . . It is very difficult to cut through the thicket of generations of scholarship and say anything new about David, the Sisti

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