The Agony And The Ecstasy
(Irving Stone)
One of the best biographies a passionate artist (of any form) might have the pleasure to read is that of Michelangelo?s life, The Agony and the Ectsasy, written by Irving Stone. This author not only captures the ecstatic feeling the sculptor possesses at the touch of marble or the breath-taking passion for his carving, he also captures a reality of bespoke temperament that rises as strongly and vividly as one cannot imagine if not by reading through the relentless stories, and diminishes as subtly and delicately as his outrage follows the sight of either his life-time friend Contessina de Medi or no other than the pure, white marble ?one of his best loves. Michelangelo?s extraordinary mind, mingled with a distressing soul that tries to take advantage of every opportunity that might come across him either by the Pope?s wishes or the magnificent Lorenzo de Medici, will provide enough space for his heart to disentangle the inquietudes he has had inside since a child of rural Tuscany. Michelangelo?s life is depicted in a well-written, absorbing novel filled with pure emotion and feeling, action, love, tenderness ?kept only for those very special at heart? and an incredible sense of perdurability and perseverance. The title?s agony refers to that sense of loss that sporadically appears in the artist?s life, the ecstasy being that antidote that represents itself in the form of art and the outpouring of creative, majestic ideas into a lifeless stone or wall. Michelangelo?s life not only pushes through what most people would call the outrageous, but also through what we would call the impossible. Is the character?s upsurge of energy and willingness that creates his forever-to-be-remembered monuments, his prompt decisions, his well-thought engineering, his dreamt creativeness that takes us to a different dimension? it is a whole different world that develops in no other than the flourishing era of the Italy of Renaissance.
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