Michelangelo
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: July 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780312187460
Subjects: Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Historical - General
First sentence: In the early spring of 1564, by the time Michelangelo Buonarroti's corpse, in a coffin and wrapped like a bale of merchandise, arrived from Rome, the three hundred or so excited members of the Accademia del Disegno (Academy of Design) in Florence were well advanced with their plans for the obsequies of the 'head, master and father of us all'.