Michelangelo: A Biography

by George Bull

Book Overview

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius and a poet and writer of great accomplishment. He was born in Caprese, where his father, a Florentine nobleman, was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312151721
• ISBN13: 9780312151720
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A great companion for a trip to Italy

I spent a week in Florence on my own and took this book with me. This book added so much to my trip. I would read this book while sipping coffee or having dinner...then I'd walk to the places it mentions in the book and lement about the stories I had just read. I finished the book close to the end of my trip. The book tells how Michelangelo's life ends...a visit to the Santa Maria where he is buried only seemed right.

Good read with insight.

This is a very good biography of Michelangelo that ranks along with Irving Stone's "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (fictional bio). Bull includes numerous letters to and from Michelangelo that involve friends and family. One is left with a good overall picture of Michelangelo and his times. I would have given it 5 stars if Bull was a little more inquisitve about painting and how painters of the time went about their work (including Michelangelo).