Michelangelo's Mountain
Subtitle: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
Publisher: Free Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780743254779
Subjects: Individual artists; Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General; Sculpture; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; Art / General; Biography; General; Carrara; History; Marble industry and trade; Sculptors
First sentence: THE MOUNTAINS THAT HANG like a theatrical backdrop behind the town of Carrara form what is surely the largest trompe l'oeil effect ever shaped by human hands.