"You won't be my opponent not because you don't have talent because you don't care about colors."
When he was thirteen years old Ghirlandaio as he said when he discovered Michelangelo's drawing talent who came to his door to be an apprentice. Michelangelo started his art by processing the fertile pietra greenhouse offered by the soil in Tuscany and was soon entitled to enter the Sculpture Garden protected by the Medici family. After David his work proved and earned the respect of people of all walks Pope John Paul II. With the ceiling ornaments of the Sistine Chapel which he crowned with olur colors mış for Julius Ghirlandaio's prophecy about his will is in vain. Taking us on Michelangelo's astonishing breathtaking voyage Irving Stone makes use of his many years of research in Italy where he traces the artist's footsteps as he conveys Florence the pietra-serenade the Renaissance-era artists and his art. Irving Stone Ghirlandaio Ghiberti Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are the other heroes of this story. As you scroll through the pages of the book you will appreciate the effort of the writer who has been telling the details of what happened in this important period of time and who has been cried to the pain of art.