An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research\' Philip Hensher, Mail on SundayThere was an Epic sweep to Michelangelo\'s life.
For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre o.
At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser).
An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research\' Philip Hensher, Mail on SundayThere was an Epic sweep to Michelangelo\'s life