![]() ![]() ![]() Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving. Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to support them. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. ![]() From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary. ![]()
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