Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is rightfully considered one of the greatest geniuses of world art, which in their work not only limits of skill, but also the highest peaks of the spirit in their work. Like other titans of Italian Renaissance, he proved himself in various fields - sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry. His long life was not easy: the complex character and uncompromising nature of nature deprived him of his friends, endowing many enemies and envious people, whose slander still stained his name for many centuries. Among the many studies, truthfully telling about the fate and creations of the great master, his new biography, written by Alexander Makhov, the historian of Italian culture, translator into the Russian language of poetic creations of Michelangelo, who appears in this book, no less significant part of his creative, promises to become one of the most noticeable. Heritage, than well -known picturesque and sculptural masterpieces