The Agony and the Ecstacy

The Agony and the Ecstacy
This is a biography of Michaelangelo. It's kind of like, in story form with tons and tons of details. Like it will spend pages and pages describing just like, one little aspect of this sculpture he's doing, and the chisel hitting the mable, and the shavings falling to the ground, and the shape being formed, and it's just like AHHH!! but it's still a good book. you really get to see inside the life of michaelangelo, and like into his mind and his heart sort of...like his whole life story but with personal details involved. not just...and then carved david. no. it tells you like where he gets the marble to carve david and why he carves david and the whole carving of david, and his emotions as he carves. he kind of lived in poverty. he was really picky about what kind of marble he would use. If it hadn't been in such detail, i probably would have read it more closely. i remember some part about him painting frescoes in school and being the best and like having to buy everyone wine because his was the best, and then there was another part where it was like, he painted this really pretty thing and everyone said his was bad, and everyone elses didn't even look like a pear or w/e they were painting and he didn't understand how they could say his was bad when it was a perfect pear...but there was like some lesson he had to learn...i can't remember what it was. maybe i should reread that one too, but i really don't remember enjoying it enough to reread it....but if i ever need to know lots and lots of details about the life of micahelangelo, i know where to look lol. and evidently i've written a paper about or something before because i type michaelangelo really easily lol.