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Title: A brilliant biography of a brilliant artist
Review: One must always question the credibility of a biographical novel on a man dead for four hundred years. I certainly did. Yet even if Irving Stone did take a bit of artistic license when filling in the blanks of Michelangelo's life, he did it very well indeed. This story works well as both biography and fiction.As an artist and sculptor, I felt a deep empathy with the tale of The Florentine Master. Though my talents are puny compared to the furious grandeur of his David or the sublime tranquility of the Pieta, I felt a kinship with Michelangelo. Irving Stone's book speaks to the artist in us all.
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