A Journey Into Michelangelo's RomeRoaring Forties Press, 01/03/2008 - 163 من الصفحات From St. Peter’s Basilica to the Capitoline Hill, this unique resource—part biography, part history, and part travel guide—provides an intimate portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo and the city he restored to artistic greatness. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, this travel companion tells the story of Michelangelo’s meteoric rise, his career marked by successive artistic breakthroughs, his tempestuous relations with powerful patrons, and his austere but passionate private life. Providing street maps that allow readers to navigate the city and discover Rome as Michelangelo knew it, each chapter focuses on a particular work that amazed Michelangelo’s contemporaries and modern tourists alike. |
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Acknowledgments | |
Michelangelo and the House of Medici 14 | |
The Tragedy of the Tomb 44 | |
The Pope and the Painter 62 | |
Faithful Friends and Foes 78 | |
A Humanist City 98 | |
Michelangelos Churches 112 | |
Michelangelo and His Legacy 130 | |
Timeline 145 | |
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