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The Agony and the Ecstasy

By Irving Stone

4.00 (11 Ratings)
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Publish Date

1961

Publisher

new american library

Language

eng

Pages

710

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.