Michelangelo's Unfinished Vision: A Life Shaped by Struggle

Michelangelo Buonarroti created the Sistine Chapel ceiling, David, and the Pieta-but his letters and contracts reveal a man consumed by anxiety, family obligations, and battles with popes who treated him as a tool rather than an artist. This biography traces how personal turmoil and institutional power shaped his art between 1475 and 1564, moving beyond the myth of solitary genius to examine the h...