Rolland tells Michelangelo’s life in five stages: his stormy youth in Florence, his struggles with Pope Julius II over the tomb and the Sistine ceiling, the failure of his great plans, his friendship with Vittoria Colonna, and his old age as architect of St. Peter’s, which he served without pay. Throughout, the artist appears as a thunderstorm in the sky of Renaissance art.
A passionate short life of the artist by the author of Jean-Christophe, for anyone drawn to the Renaissance. Download the free EPUB.