The Economist (US), June 8th, 1991
SAYONARA, MICHELANGELO. By Waldemar Januszczak. Bloomsbury; 192 pages; [British pounds] 12.99 and $21
PITY poor Michelangelo. In 1562, Benvenuto Cellini voted him the Renaissance Man's Renaissance man, christening the creator of the Sistine ceiling "the divine Buonarroti". Four hundred years later, Cecil B. DeMille bestowed the 20th century's equivalent of this divinity on Michelangelo when he cast Charlton Heston as the painter in "The Agony and the Ecstasy". For a couple of decades, Michelangelo ranked in the public imagination with Moses and El Cid. Now, both the divine Buonarroti and hi...
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