![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Leonardo's life is falling apart: he loses the hoped-for David commission he can't seem to finish any project he is obsessed with his ungainly flying machine he almost dies in war his engineering designs disastrously fail and he is haunted by a woman he has seen in the market-a merchant's wife, whom he is finally commissioned to paint. Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving. Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to support them. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Legendary geniuses clash in both art and life in this "tremendously entertaining" novel of Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo ( The New York Times).įor a few years at the very beginning of the sixteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. ![]()
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