The artist's life story became the climax of Vasari's art history textbook - “The Lives of the Artists”. Vasari christened his former master and hero “the divine Michelangelo”, and so he ...
With a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and ...
Michelangelo Buonarotti’s 550th birthday ... The artist was born in nearby Caprese and spent stretches of his life in Florence, the seat of the cultural revival known as the Renaissance.