by Irving Stone · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499222290
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«Michelangelo» is Irving Stone's biographical novel, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (722 pages, in German).
The novel follows Michelangelo Buonarroti in sixteenth-century Florence, where he struggles against cardinals, princes, and popes. Stone recreates his rivalries with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, his tormented character, and the creation of an artistic legacy in an age of splendor and constant wars.
Novel originally published in 1961 as 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'; this German edition, translated by Hans Kaempfer, belongs to the Rororo series number 22229.
A work for readers of historical fiction and artist biographies, particularly those interested in the Italian Renaissance.
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.
