The Agony and the Ecstasy
Subtitle: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Publisher: Signet
Published: March 3, 1987
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780451146922
First sentence: HE SAT before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat broad forehead, and ears too far back on the head, the dark hair curling forward in thatches, the amber-colored eyes wide-set but heavy-lidded.