{"product_id":"michelangelo-a-life-in-six-masterpieces-9781451678741","title":"Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history  told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.  Among the immortalsLeonardo  Rembrandt  PicassoMichelangelo stands alone as a master of painting  sculpture  and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants  but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse and promoting the novel idea that it was the artist  rather than the lord who paid for it  who was creative force behind the work.  Miles Unger narrates the astonishing life of this driven and difficult man through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium  from the Piet Michelangelo carved as a brash young man  to the apocalyptic Last Judgment  the work of an old man tested by personal trials. Throughout the course of his career he explored the full range of human possibility. In the gargantuan David he depicts Man in the glory of his youth  while in the tombs he carved for the Medici he offers a sustained meditation on death and the afterlife. In the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of Creation  from the perfection of Gods initial procreative act to the corruption introduced by His imperfect children. In the final decades of his life  his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel  he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peters in a final tribute to his God.  A work of deep artistic understanding  Miles Ungers Michelangelo brings to life the irascible  egotistical  and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after 500 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648266166325,"sku":"ByrdShop_1451678746","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781451678741.jpg?v=1781714689","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michelangelo-a-life-in-six-masterpieces-9781451678741","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}