The Agony and the Ecstasy, (Paperback)

from LisaMaria_C

As Stone tells us in his note afterwards, he not only lived and researched in Michelangelo's Italy, he had this letters translated into English for the first time. Stone even worked in marble quarries and apprenticed himself to a sculptor. Needless to say, this biography of the great artist, arch...

from stipe168

powerful, and powerfully long. Michelangelo is so much cooler than that Da Vinci a-hole any day of the week. He painted the freaking sistine chapel all by himself, for years, all day long, upside down on the ceiling, with paint falling into his eyes and mouth. he's one intense mofo. and he did it...

from rampaginglibrarian

I remember reading this during the lulls at the late-night pizza place i worked during college and people joking that i was reading pornography. I have mellowed somewhat in my infactuation with historical novels (used to love Michener), i think in some ways i might actually prefer the real histor...

from PeterNZ

I read this book in German many years ago and was fascinated. And again, this time in English this book fascinated me. Irving Stone describes the life of Michelangelo Buonarotti. It is a story about a life lived serving his family and several politicians, noble men and popes. He gets in between f...

from pierthinker

Irving Stone has produced a fine fictional biography of the Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo Buonarroti in 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'. Stone was an American author (1903-1989) who specialised in fictional biography, his two best known works being 'Lust for Life' about Vincen...