Michelangelo was recognized as a great artist early in his long and prolific career. Along with a small band of contemporaries, he was responsible for sixteenth-century Florence becoming the center of a movement of artists that has permanently enriched western culture.
Essential Michelangelo looks in detail at all aspects of his work, with comprehensive commentary on 120 examples of his pieces. While many of these are among his most famous, others may be less well known, but they are all equally essential to the development of Michelangelo's artistic philosophy.
