Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine: A Biography

Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine: A Biography is the most important biography of Michelangelo to appear in modern times, 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's biography covers the full range of Michelangelo's early years and explores the overwhelming influence that his charismatic personality had upon his contemporaries and followers. Spike traces Michelangelo's development into a master sculptor—the creator at a very young age of the Pieta and the David—probes his 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, for Michelangelo knew them all. 

Hardcover: 312 pages 
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches 
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds