Young Michelangelo

Name: Young Michelangelo
Brand: Duckworth
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ISBN 9780715643020 Published 21 June 2012

£10.99

This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. Spike surveys Michelangelo's early life from birth to his early thirties, probing the thinking, artistic evolution and yearnings of a young man thoroughly convinced of his own exceptional talent. Spike explores Michelangelo's involvement in the most troubling controversies of his age, and recreates Florence and Rome with vivid sketches of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo, Julius II and Machiavelli. This is a prodigiously informative and compelling account that will fulfil the need for a major Michelangelo biography for this generation and many to come.

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780715643020
Published: 21 June 2012
Pages: 336
Duration
Dimensions: 129 x 196 mm
Genre: Memoir and Biography
Imprint: Duckworth

Reviews

'Spike crystallizes historical detail into vivid , memorable imagery... Alternating between accounts of the turbulent political atmosphere and details of Michelangelo's most private moments in the sculpture studio, Spike creates a rich narrative that promises more intrigue than the best adventure novel'

Publishers Weekly

'Michelangelo is a difficult man to like, but impossible to resist. Spike captures his magnetism, his drive and the sheer scale of his ambition'

Sarah Bakewell, Sunday Times

'No art historian has got closer to Michelangelo than John T. Spike'

Sunday Telegraph

'Tense and agile as an early sculpture, Young Michelangelo is a compelling portrait of the artist as a young man in a dangerous time'

Peter Robb, author of M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

'A crisply thorough biography'

Christopher Bray, Daily Express

About the author

John T. Spike

John T. Spike is a noted art historian, author and lecturer, specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. He is also an important critic of contemporary art and directed the Biennial of Florence. In 2007, Spike was named to the faculty of the Masters in Sacred Art History, organised by the European University of Rome and the Pontifical Athenaeum, 'Regina Apostolorum.' In 2010 Spike was engaged by the Council of Europe as an expert in Cultural Heritage. Spike is also the author of the critically acclaimed Caravaggio. He lives in Florence.

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