📖 The Little Book of Michelangelo

A painter, sculptor, architect and poet, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the first artist to be recognized by his contemporaries as a genius. The Little Book of Michelangelo, with a preface by Paul Joannides of Cambridge University, provides an accessible introduction to the life and work of this most influential of artists. A biographical essay sets the scene, charting his life from apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence, to his final years of loneliness, sculpting his pietas. The handy alphabetical entries that follow, accompanied by some 100 illustrations, include detailed commentary on his best-known works such as the sculpture of David and the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.