The Agony and the Ecstasyby Irving Stone | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Historical" |
| Pages: | 652 |
| Year of Publication: | 1961 |
| Date Read: | 06/09/1999 |
| Notes: | Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Florence in 1475 and died 89 years later in Rome. We meet his contemporaries, his benefactors and the important personages of Renaissance art and politics. Michelangelo emerges in his field of the visual arts as Beethoven emerged in music: the universal commanding genius for all time. "Coloring his narrative with bold, free strokes, Stone has written an important and thoroughly enjoyable novel." COMMENTS — In Lust for Life, Stone tells the story of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. He also wrote fictionalized biographies of Andrew and Rachel Jackson and Abraham and Mary Lincoln. |
| My Rating: | 7 |