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1	The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican more books like this by Benjamin Blech, Rabbi, Roy Doliner Two top scholars reveal the secret messages of protest that Michelangelo had hidden in his Sistine Chapel masterpiece, encouraging travelers to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of the time. 16-page color photo insert. see all copies from $13.50! new only from $13.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo more books like this by Irving Stone A #1 New York Times bestselling classic that "glows with the fire of one of the world's greatest geniuses" (Saturday Review Syndicate). Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, NAL releases a special edition of Irving Stone's classic biographical novel in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling more books like this by Ross King In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been strongly advised against doing so. At 12,000 square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted; and the thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio more books like this by Peter Robb Sometimes known simply as M, Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality--qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose as he suspends time to capture the artist's wild and tempestuous life. of full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Electric Michelangelo more books like this by Sarah Hall A finalist for the 2004 Man Booker Prize, this "wildly imagined and richly written" ("The Independent") portrait of love and art, set in the years between the two world wars, "confirms Hall's status as one of the most significant and exciting of our younger novelists" ("The Guardian)." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Agony and the Ecstasy more books like this by Irving Stone This is 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Novel of Michelangelo more books like this by Irving Stone see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Angel Inside: Michelangelo's Secrets for Following Your Passion and Finding the Work You Love more books like this by Chris Widener The break-out business parable that's already sold more than 70,000 copies, "The Angel Inside" tells the story of a young man searching for meaning in his work and finding it in an unlikely place: the life and art of Michelangelo. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Michelangelo's Notebook more books like this by Paul Christopher New York University student Finn Ryan discovers a drawing of a dissected corpse believed to have been made by Michelangelo. When her boyfriend is killed, Finn flees and finds book dealer Michael Valentine. Together, they race to expose a secret from World War II that lies in the heart of the Vatican. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Michelangelo more books like this by Howard Hibbard see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.35! \| first editions
11	Michelangelo Pistoletto more books like this by Michael Tarantino (Text by), Remo Guidieri (Text by), Juan Antonio Ramirez (Text by) A monograph on the renowned Italian painter, who began his career as a member of the Arte Povera movement, and has moved beyond his early work to explore further realms of artistic innovation. see all copies from $24.95! new only from $95.05! \| first editions
12	Caravaggio more books like this by Alfred Moir (Text by) A discussion of the life of the artist is accompanied by reproductions and critical analyses of his major painting. see all copies from $3.32! new only from $48.26! \| first editions
13 view cover	Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body more books like this by James Hall '[Michelangelo] was constantly flaying dead bodies, in order to study the secrets of anatomy, thus beginning to give perfection to the great knowledge of design that he afterwards acquired.' Giorgio Vasari, Life of Michelangelo, 1568. Michelangeo's art is exhilarating, but also bewildering. What is the source of its incomparable power? In this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo more books like this by Jerry Brotton More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $11.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Working Space more books like this by Frank D Stella Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. Professionals, students, collectors and all lovers of art will find Stella's non-traditional ... see all copies from $12.66! new only from $20.34! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Passion Dream Book more books like this by Whitney Otto With Her Trademark Originality, Whitney Otto Tells the story of a bohemian couple and the years they spend finding and losing each other. The Passion Dream Book is about artists, their tendency to colonize and to migrate. A blending of fiction with history, the story begins in the Italian Renaissance with a girl named Giulietta, the daughter of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Caravaggio more books like this by Howard Hibbard Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more personally and more poignantly than any others of the time". In this study, Howard Hibbard evaluates the work of Caravaggio: notorious as a painter-assassin ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $32.73! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Michelangelo more books like this by Diane Stanley (Illustrator) With her lively narrative and superb illustrations, Stanley captures the life of an artist whose work amazes to this day, and provides a thrilling introduction for young readers to Michelangelo's work and the colorful world of Renaissance Italy. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti more books like this by John Addington Symonds The artistic genius of Michelangelo (1475-1564) is beyond question. One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pieta at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.87! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Michelangelo: A Biography more books like this by George Bull Using recent research, as well as letters, records and the established biographies, this book examines the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, placing him in the context of Renaissance Italy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.43! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Michelangelo: Vatican Frescoes more books like this by Pierluigi De Vecchi, Gianluigi Colalucci Originally painted by Michelangelo in the late 1400s, the Vatican's Sistine Chapel frescoes were painstakingly restored between 1981 and 1995, provoking great controversy. Michelangelo's original task hard required him to construct elaborate scaffolding and to spend years of his life lying on his back to pain the ceiling; the restoration was no ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $43.17! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Michelangelo more books like this by Ludwig Goldscheider This work contains illustrations of all of Michelangelo's work, his paintings, sculpture and architecture, excluding his drawings. The text surveys the opinions of leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes. The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides a record ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $22.36!
23 view cover	Who Can Open Michelangelo's Seven Seals? more books like this by Thomas Brezina, Laurence Sartin (Illustrator) see all copies from $4.08! new only from $4.20! \| SVS
24	Biography-Michelangelo see all copies from $10.92! new only from $10.92!
25 view cover	Natural history of intellect and other papers more books like this by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1903. With a general index to Emerson's collected works. The content of this volume emerged from lectures given by Emerson. He was truly the center of the Transcendental movement and the founder of a distinctly American philosophy emphasizing optimism, individuality, and mysticism. One of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.17! \| first editions \| SVS

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