{"product_id":"michelangelo-his-epic-life-9780241299425","title":"Michelangelo: His Epic Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere was an epic sweep to Michelangelos life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy  perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and  by his enemies  to be an arrogant  uncouth  swindling miser). For decade after decade  he worked near the dynamic center of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his worksincluding the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling  the marble giant David and the Last Judgmentwere small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythologysuch as Hercules  whose statue Michelangelo carved in his youthhe was subject to constant trials and labors. In Michelangelo  Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti  and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666143109173,"sku":"ByrdShop_024129942X","price":86.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241299425.jpg?v=1782420818","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michelangelo-his-epic-life-9780241299425","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}