Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Description: Mr. Stone gives his signature style and thought to this story of Michelangelo. He points out often in this book that Michelangelo, before beginning a work, asks what it is he is trying to capture in the moment of his painting, sculpture, or poem. So it is with Mr. Stone. He wants to portray, as close as he can find, the moments of the life of this artist. What shaped him, what he loved, what (and whom) he hated. At the moments Stone writes of. A great book, and one I hope to read again.
Subjects: Fiction, Artists, Biography, Biographical fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Artists, fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, general, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Fiction, Powieści, History, Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
Places: Italy
People: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564