- Fiction, Artists, Biography, Biographical fiction
Mr. Stone gives his signature style and thought to this story of Michelangelo. He points out often in this book that Michelangelo, before beginning a work, asks what it is he is trying to capture in the moment of his painting, sculpture, or poem. So it is with Mr. Stone. He wants to portray, as close as he can find, the moments of the life of this artist. What shaped him, what he loved, what (and whom) he hated. At the moments Stone writes of. A great book, and one I hope to read again.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Irving Stone
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 710
- Publisher
- Booket, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Editions
- 83
- Language
- English, German, Swedish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9787305158018
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“HE SAT before the mirror of the second-floor bedroom sketching his lean cheeks with their high bone ridges, the flat broad forehead, and ears too far back on the head, the dark hair curling forward in thatches, the amber-colored eyes wide-set but heavy-lidded.”
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