Michelangelo: Sculptor

Michelangelo - scuptor, architect, painter, poet and artist par excellence - was seen by his contemporaries as embodying the zenith of all artistic achievement.

The book sets out to bring his genius closer and to make it more understandable. Here one can see details of his work in full-page pictures, many of which have been produced especially for the book.

Michelangelo was the greatest sculptor who ever lived, recognised by his contemporaries as a genius and canonised even before…