This is a provocative tale of the artistic genius Michelangelo. An icon of the Italian Renaissance, his struggles to bring beauty into the world so that humanity may find God in it, is challenged. With his words you shall get a glimpse of what unfolds in these pages.
As a youth: “Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.”
In his older years: “If in my youth, I had realized that the sustaining splendors of Beauty with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”
