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The life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.Among the immortals - Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso - Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse and promoting the novel idea that it was the artist, rather than the lord who paid for it, who was creative force behind the work. Miles Unger narrates the astonishing life of this driven and difficult man through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the Piet Michelangelo carved as a brash young man, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man tested by personal trials.



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Miles J. Unger

Miles J. Unger is the author of four critically-acclaimed biographies. The Washington Post calls Picasso and the Painting that Shocked the World "an engrossing read"; the Christian Science Monitor names it "best book" for March, 2018. The Boston Globe describes Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces as "a deeply human tribute to one of the most accomplished and fascinating figures in the history of Western culture". USA Today calls Machiavelli: A Biography "a superb biography." He currently writes on art and culture for The Economist magazine, and from 1999-2010 was a contributing writer at The New York Times. Miles currently lives near Boston with his wife Jody.Visit him at his website: www.milesjunger.com



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