Tells the story of the four years Michelangelo spent painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, explaining how he and his assistants worked, discussing his struggles with finances, ill health, and other difficulties, and examining the political and personal rivalries that shadowed the project.
Michelangelo's career as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghirlandaio and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.
Presents a short biography of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Michelangelo, describing his childhood and apprenticeship as well as his many masterpieces which includes the statue "David" and his famous fresco in the Sistine Chapel.
An illustrated biography of Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo that describes the world in which he lived and such artistic accomplishments as the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Answers the who, what, where, when, and why of the life and times of sixteenth century artist Michelangelo, with information on art, architecture, food, fashion, history, politics, people, places, literature, and customs of the time.
