num_pages: 776
description: Fictional depiction of Michelangelo. Includes bibliography, glossary and a list of the artist's works.From the tumult of life, his brilliant work made a grasp for heaven unmatched in half a millennium. Now, in a special ediction celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, Irving Stone's towering triumph: The Agony and the EcstasyThe Renaissance was a turbulent time of plotting princes, warring popes, the all-powerful de' Medici family, the fanatical monk Savonarola... and the brilliant young artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.In Irving Stone's classic work, both the artist and the man are brought to life in full, in a compelling portrait of his dangerous, impassioned loves and the God-driven fury from which her wrested the greatest art the world has ever known...
language: English
title: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
titlecomplete: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
characters: Pope Clement VII, Francesco Granacci, Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), Pope Julius II, Pietro Torrigiani, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo
genres: Art, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Art History, Literature, Italy, Classics, Fiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 89098
places: Rome, Italy, Florence, Tuscany
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Berkley