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THERE IS SUCH AN abundance of documentary information about the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti that we necessarily are selective in our use of the primary sources: nearly 1,400 letters to [...]

This is the fourth volume of Alessandro Parronchi's Opere giovanili di Michelangelo. Despite the title and emphasis of the first volumes on the artist's 'youthful works,' this collection of mostly [...]

This lucidly written and beautifully produced book is an authoritative monographic study of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, Bronzino's masterpiece and a major monument of sixteenth-century Italian painting. The [...]

This essay is a preliminary sketch for a book that examines Michelangelo Buonarroti's final eighteen years, from his appointment as architect of St. Peter's until his death in 1564, that is, from age seventy-one to a few weeks shy of eighty-nine. This period represents nearly a quarter of his approximately seventy-five-year artistic career, yet it remains the least familiar segment of Michelangelo's long life. It is paradoxical that in the final phase of his career, Michelangelo remained prodigiously creative and influential without being prolific--as he had been earlier in his career. His late life was concerned less with making things than with finding the courage and devotion to continue tasks that he knew he would never see to fruition, and this despite the loss of his closest friends, greatest patron, and his entire family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]