![]() ![]() There are so many twists and turns in the narrative of this artist's life. The life of Michelangelo certainly reflects the title. The title of this book The Agony and the Ecstasy makes me think of a daytime soap opera with overblown tragedy and illicit affairs driving the daily plot. To many historians that statue symbolizes the whole Renaissance. ![]() That statue grew beyond representing Florence. You must see the statue in person to fully comprehend how amazing it is. I was mesmerized by David’s hand when I took this picture in Florence back in 1992. Much later, when Michelangelo got the chance to carve a statue that was supposed to represent Florence, he knew that it must be David. After all, fire, water, and the passage of time destroyed paint, but stone lasted forever.ĭonatello died in 1466, but despite never meeting him or receiving the benefit of his teaching, the influence of Donatello was undeniable. He wanted a chisel in his hand, not a paintbrush. He wanted to become a sculptor in an age when sculpting was nearly extinct. There had never been artists in the family, so the desire, nay the need, to create that existed in the young Michelangelo did not come from tradition, but from a new flame within him. His family was an ancient family, as old as the famous Medici family, but they have fallen on hard times by the time Michelangelo’s father became the patriarch. He was coming of age just as the Renaissance was beginning to take full flight. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Florence on March 6th, 1475. To him, as he once again ran his fingers along its contours, it was the most alive substance in the world, rhythmic, responsive, tractable: warm, resilient, colorful, vibrant. ”To some people stone was dead ‘hard as stone,’ ‘stone cold,’ they said. The Italian government lauded Stone with several honorary awards during this period for his cultural achievements highlighting Italian history. For example, he spent many years living in Italy while working on The Agony and the Ecstasy. Stone additionally did much of his research "in the field". It seems probable that Vincent's letters to and from his own brother Theo provided a foundation for Adversary in the House. Stone's main source for Lust for Life, as noted in the afterword, were Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo. During their lifetime, Stone and his wife funded a foundation to support charitable causes they believed in. ![]() The Stones lived primarily in Los Angeles, California. Stone enjoyed a long marriage to his wife and editor on many of his works, Jean Stone. When at home, Stone relied upon the research facilities and expertise made available to him by Esther Euler, head research librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles, to whom he dedicated and thanked, in addition to many others, in several of his works. In the 1960s, Stone received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California, where he had previously earned a Masters Degree from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. ![]()
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