The Agony and the Ecstasy
by:
Irving Stone (author)
ISBN:
9780002210058 (0002210053)
Publish date: 1961
Publisher: Collins (London)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Art,
Biography Memoir,
Art History
”To some people stone was dead; ‘hard as stone,’ ‘stone cold,’ they said. To him, as he once again ran his fingers along its contours, it was the most alive substance in the world, rhythmic, responsive, tractable: warm, resilient, colorful, vibrant. He was in love with stone.”Michelangelo portrait b...
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: A biographical novel of the life and art of Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect...Review: I have conflicted feelings about this novel. There is just so much to love, so much that has made a profound emotional and intellectual impact on me. And yet in some asp...
As Stone tells us in his note afterwards, he not only lived and researched in Michelangelo's Italy, he had this letters translated into English for the first time. Stone even worked in marble quarries and apprenticed himself to a sculptor. Needless to say, this biography of the great artist, archite...
4.06610248
Finished: I am giving this 4 out of 5 stars. I learned a lot and this book will push me on to reading more about Italy in the 1500s, more about the Medici, more about the Borgia family, more about the Popes, more about Charles V,the Holy Roman Emperor. History was made VERY interesting. It was not d...
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