Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473505704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known. Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's marvellous book.
The Irving Stone Reader
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The Agony And The Ecstasy
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473505704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known. Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's marvellous book.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473505704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known. Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's marvellous book.
Depths of Glory
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: N A L Trade
ISBN: 9780452275010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
A fictional profile of the painter traces his life and career at the center of a circle of artists who founded Impressionism
Publisher: N A L Trade
ISBN: 9780452275010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
A fictional profile of the painter traces his life and career at the center of a circle of artists who founded Impressionism
Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Life of the great criminal lawyer.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Life of the great criminal lawyer.
The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse
Author: Ayfer Tunc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912545070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker ('Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?') Ülkü Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn. Town elder Türkan, retired judge and staunch Kemalist, leaves him gaping at her photographic archive, grasp of new media, research methods and sheer intelligence. As this literary palimpsest unfolds, the reader travels through time and space, to 1875 and back again, between the Caucasus, Ottoman and Republican Turkey, Europe and the USA, through wars, reform, riots, and coups d'état.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912545070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker ('Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?') Ülkü Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn. Town elder Türkan, retired judge and staunch Kemalist, leaves him gaping at her photographic archive, grasp of new media, research methods and sheer intelligence. As this literary palimpsest unfolds, the reader travels through time and space, to 1875 and back again, between the Caucasus, Ottoman and Republican Turkey, Europe and the USA, through wars, reform, riots, and coups d'état.
The Origin
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 9780552119207
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Publisher: Corgi
ISBN: 9780552119207
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Lust For Life
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a great painter... a great philosopher... a martyr to his love of art. “ Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn’t feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush. Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world’s most celebrated artists.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. “Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a great painter... a great philosopher... a martyr to his love of art. “ Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn’t feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush. Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world’s most celebrated artists.
Sailor on Horseback
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404750968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404750968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immortal Wife
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Those who love
Author: Irving Stone
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451069825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451069825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description