Michelangelo Buonarroti. His Life and Artistic Activity

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

“The Lives of Remarkable People” is the first in Russia universal collection of biographies of outstanding figures: actors, musicians, artists, writers, commanders, and political figures, scholars and philosophers of different eras and countries, written using historical and literary sources. Recommended for a wide readership.

“Michelangelo above all is character. Unyielding and proud, gloomy and severe—he embodied in himself all the torments of the reborn person: his struggle, suffering, protest, frustrated aspirations, the clash between ideal and reality. In the family of famous people, he is one of those for whom neither contemporaries nor history alone earn the name ‘great,’ but whose character itself provokes wonder and almost divine reverence.”

Semyon M. Brilliant