The Life of Michelangelo

A French novelist and playwright, author of such great works as “Jean-Christophe” and “The Enchanted Soul,” Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1916 “for the exalted idealism of his works, and also for the genuine sympathy and love with which the writer creates various human types.”

Bright personalities that left their mark on art and history drew Romain Rolland in. That’s how the cycle “Lives of Great Men” was formed, including biographies of Beethoven, Michelangelo, and Tolstoy; and thus the play “Danton,” which became part of the cycle “Theater of the Revolution,” was created.