Michelangelo

List of Figures

Introduction

Chapter One - Childhood

Chapter Two - The Youthful Genius

Chapter Three - At the Court of Julius II

Chapter Four - Back and forth between Rome and

Florence

Chapter Five - At the call of the Medicis

Chapter Six - Michelangelo's glasses

Chapter Seven - The Pauline Chapel

Chapter Eight - No more illusions

Notes

Index

Antonio Forcellino, geb. 1955, ist Renaissance-Forscher und Michelangelo-Experte. Als Restaurator hat Forcellino an vielen bedeutenden Werken der Kunstgeschichte gearbeitet. 1998 wurde er zum Chefrestaurator von Michelangelos Moses ernannt.

"Michelangelo lived in interesting times (French invasions; the Reformation) and Forcellino displays an excellent grasp of the political and religious turmoil of the period and, as an art historian-restorer, is as eloquent talking about techniques as he is about composition and iconography." -- The Observer

"Authoritative on the life of Michelangelo." -- Irish Examiner

"In this brilliant new biography by art historian and restorer Antonio Forcellino the facts are disentagled from the myths." -- Yorkshire Evening Post

"Combining a biographer's insight with a conservator's knowledge of materials and techniques, Antonio Forcellino has written an engaging study of the world's most famous sculptor, painter, and architect." -- William Wallace, Washington University

"Written as fluently as a novel, Forcellino's gripping narrative combines new research on Michelangelo's life and vivid quotations from his letters with a sharp sense of the artistic challenges to which he responded and a restorer's close attention to technical detail." -- Peter Burke, University of Cambridge

"From the very first pages, this fascinating biography draws us into the heart of the life of the greatest artist of post-Antiquity, a life of privilege which nevertheless had its share of burden and tragedy. As an art historian, Antonio Forcellino is endowed with a fresher, sharper, more professional and livelier outlook than most learned scholars. From his personal experience, he knows the work on the scaffolding, regardless of the height or season, as well as the techniques of the scalpel and the fresco, the study of the human body and the endless negotiations with clients of differing temperaments and moods. At the same time, his fluent and lively account ably evokes Michelangelo's political, economic and personal background, whilst penetrating the secrets of Michelangelo's religiousness: this - occasionally desperate - dialogue with the contradictory thought of contemporary theology and