Tells the life story of Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo, studying various examples and aspects of his work as well as the major artistic and cultural developments of his time.
A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, whose greatest work may have been the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
Discusses the life and works of fifteenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo, and includes reproductions of some of his most famous works including "The Last Supper," the Sistine Chapel, and the statues "David" and "Pieta.".
An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.
After a very heavy snowfall in Florence, Italy, Sandro, the youngest page in the palazzo of Piero De' Medici, tries to find out why the ruler has summoned the sculptor, Michelangelo.