Michelangelo. Poesia e scultura

A striking layout and stunning images accompany these rhymes written by one of the greatest artists of all times: a book unique in its genre that reveals a "different Michelangelo. Not everybody knows that the brilliant Renaissance artist was also an excellent poet and put into rhyme the most secret part of his complex personality. He never published his rhymes, but he selected 89 of them for a hypothetical collection. Electa has now asked one of the major international scholars to select the images of Michelangelo's sculptures to accompany these rhymes. Combining Michelangelo's poetry and images of the sculptures, this book offers an unusual and fascinating view of Michelangelo, the Renaissance man.