Michelangelo Buonarroti: His Life and Artistic Work

“Life of Remarkable People” is a series of biographical and artistic-biographical books published from 1890 to 1924 by the publishing house F. F. Pavlenkov.

“Life of Remarkable People” is the first in Russia universal collection of biographies of outstanding figures—artists, musicians, painters, writers, commanders, and political figures, scientists and philosophers from different eras and countries—written from historical and literary sources. Recommended for a wide reading audience.

“Michelangelo is above all character. Intransigent and proud, gloomy and severe—he embodied all the torments of the reborn man: his struggle, suffering, protest, unfulfilled aspirations, the clash between the ideal and reality. In the family of famous people, he is one of those whose ‘greatness’ is given not only by contemporaries and by history, but by the character itself, which by itself evokes astonishment and almost divine veneration.”

Semyon Brilliant S. M.