![]() ![]() But the book’s real interest lies in Michelangelo’s art, and six works in particular, including the Pieta, the Sistine Chapel fresco, and St. Consulting the artist’s letters and sonnets, and early biographers Vasari and Ascanio Condivi, Unger weaves a familiar narrative about an ambitious sculptor, painter, and architect who elevated the artist’s status from laborer to demigod, mostly under the patronage of five popes: Julius II, Leo X, Clement VII, Paul III, and Julius III. ![]() ![]() While this breezy biography by art historian Unger ( Machiavelli: A Biography) contributes little that is new to the subject, the casual reader (or prospective tourist) could do worse than pick up this highly readable book, if only for pleasing explanations of Michelangelo’s well-known works. ![]()
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