Michelangelo
Subtitle: A Biography
Edition: 1st U.S. ed edition
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780312151720
Subjects: Artists, Architects, Photographers; 15th-16th Century Art; Biography & Autobiography; 1475-1564; Artists; Biography; Italy; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Michelangelo Buonarroti,; Biography/Autobiography
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'.