one,��� ���friend,��� ���Signor Alessandro,��� and ���no need��� on a
page with gorgeously executed sketches of facial features? Or, on a page variously littered with formal legalese [Figure 9] and with some rather ungainly figure
sketches, ���Desire engenders desire and then leaves
pain��� and ���Death is the end of a dark prison���?
I don���t���indeed, I can���t���provide definitive answers. All
I can say is that I went looking for Michelangelo���s unique
combination of words and pictures and ended up glimpsing something like the interior of his creative soul. H
Contributing Editor
Leonard Barkan���s
Michelangelo: A
Life on Paper,
is published by
Princeton University
Press. ISBN-10:
0691147663
Author Photograph:
Nick Barberio
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