Военная история / Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

Название: Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
Автор(ы): William E. Wallace
Издательство: Princeton University Press 2019
Страниц: 327
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 61 MB

The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades?and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance
As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life.