The Life of Michelangelo

Condivi's unparalleled biography presents his friend Michelangelo's life, work and struggles in the world of Papal politics and Italian wars. This edition reproduces the long unavailable translation by Charles Holroyd and has 49 pages of illustrations covering the span of Michelangelo's achievement.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) remains the most compelling artist in the Western canon. Painter, sculptor, poet, architect, he redefined both the possibilities of the imagination and the ima...