A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created David , painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.

A practical series of monographs in which the titles help art lovers avoid any embarrassing lapses of memory in conversation. Peppered with numerous illustrations and texts that cover contemporary history, biographical information and artistic works, these mini art guides offer an overview of some of the most exceptional artists in history.

This album presents the work of Michelangelo, one of the great Renaissance artists who transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. Michelangelo tried to reconcile the forces that inhabited him: earthly passions and fear of God.

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ...

In this masterly, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelos art to his life and to the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelos own letters and poems. What emerges is both a perspective appraisal of his work and a revealing life history of the man who was arguably the greatest artist of all time.

This is a beautifully designed monograph on the architectural works of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and the only hardcover illustrated book in print in English on the subject.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was already in his lifetime the most celebrated and influential artist in Europe. This book presents dialogues that record his participation in the discussions about art hosted by Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo's closest friend for whom he made some of his most poignant images.

The Splendour and the Scandal - Building St Peter's. A fascinating history of the creation of one of the world's great buildings, encompassing a history of Europe and Christianity, and containing a cast of characters including great artists, decadent Popes and Europe's greatest writers.

This text gives an account of the life and work of Michelangelo (1475-1564), one of the great artists of the Renaissance, setting his achievement within the context of the changing artistic, political and social circumstances in Italy in the 16th century.

Nippon TV undertook the cleaning of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in return for exclusive rights to the images of the restored masterpiece. This book combines a history of the ceiling, a new image of a rational Michelangelo, and the story of Japan's growing dominance in the world marketplace.

Explores the body-language of Michelangelo's figures, and his preoccupation with the male nude. This book re-assesses the popular idea of Michelangelo as an artist-superman possessed of titanic mental and physical powers, and the long-held view of him as brilliant but unbalanced, obsessed with the male nude.

This work contains illustrations of all of Michelangelo's paintings, sculpture and architecture. The text surveys the opinions of leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes.

For Dr Miranda Jones - after having been mugged outside her own home in the USA - the summons to Italy, in order to authenticate a Renaissance bronze, comes as a welcome distraction. Unfortunately, that mugging was only the beginning of her troubles.

* Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS

Ascanio Condivi was a pupil of, and assistant to, the great artist Michelangelo. This is a translation of Condivi's biography of Michelangelo. It tells the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist and his accomplishments.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. This is a collection of verses which are devoted to love and religion.

Dazzling commentary on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings.