Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo Storey Stephanie Paperback
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo Storey Stephanie Paperback From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Michelangelo was a…
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Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo Storey Stephanie Paperback
From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. 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.
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. Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak.
Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving.Meanwhile, Leonardo's life is falling apart: he loses the hoped-for David commission; he can't seem to finish any project; he is obsessed with his ungainly flying