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Title: Good Read!
Review: Even within the morality in 1961 (apparently forbidding the mention of sexual preference in an acknowledged hero, which resulting in omission of what must have been a major formative issue in his life) this is a compelling story of the rise of one of the few peole in the art world whose work is as vibrant today as when it was produced over 500 years ago. Michelangelo was constantly under pressure to comply with the whims of others, Medici or Pope, and even the works he had no interest in, his creative ability shone through. His fear of being caught in his forbidden studies of cadavers, suffering through those terrible winter months, dealing with the arbitray whims of his patrons, his genius shone through despite himself. This book was a page turner, which is not what one often finds in a biography.
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