Michelangelo: Poems of Love

In the history of western art there are but few titans. One of the greatest of all these artists, however, is Michelangelo. He stands before us like a colos­sus, the range of his work reaching beyond that of any other artist before his time, or since. Famed for his sculptures, it is a lesser known fact that Michelangelo was also a great poet. But a writer of love poetry? How could a man who made the heroic figure of David his exemplar fashion poetry dedicated to a woman? Yet he did so, late...