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Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
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- Michelangelo: A Tormented Life
- by Antonio Forcellino, translation by Allan Cameron
- Polity, 300 pp.
- CLR [rating:4]
When Art Meets Politics and Religion
Until a few days before he died in Rome at age eighty-nine on February 15, 1564, Michelangelo Buonarotti was still hard at work, still living in his customary humble circumstances, and still dressing in the rough artist’s smock.
Forcellino michelangelo buonarroti biography
Nevertheless he was the most celebrated artist of his day, praised throughout Europe, and so the Church in Rome claimed his body for what was expected to be an ostentatious burial offering abundant reflected glory. This did not prevent Vatican hirelings from ransacking his house, which overlooked the pastureland that was once the ancient Roman Forum.
From its ground floor workshop they spirited away all the works he personally owned and a number of incomplete sculptures. His corpse was tempor