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Michelangelo

His Epic Life

Martin Gayford

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Fig Tree
18 April 2017
A new biography of Michelangelo by the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House.

At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser).

For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology - such as Hercules, whose statue he carved in his youth - he was subject to constant trials and labours.

In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.

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Imprint:   Fig Tree
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 231mm,  Width: 148mm,  Spine: 47mm
Weight:   1.338kg
ISBN:   9780241299425
ISBN 10:   024129942X
Pages:   688
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter, The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

Reviews for Michelangelo: His Epic Life

An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research -- Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday One of our most distinguished writers on what makes modern artists tick ... It is very difficult to cut through the thicket of generations of scholarship and say anything new about David, the Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement, the Basilica of St Peter's or many of Michelangelo's other masterpieces, but Gayford manages to do so by encouraging us to think - and look - at both the obvious and the overlooked Sunday Telegraph It is a measure of [Michelangelo's] magnitude, and Gayford's skill in capturing it, that you finish this book wishing that Michelangelo had lived longer and created more -- Rachel Spence FT Only the most ambitious biographer can take on the talent of Michelangelo Buonarroti The Times


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