Michelangelo, God’s Architect is an art book by William E. Wallace.
The gripping untold story of Michelangelo’s last decades – and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance.
As he entered his 70s, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Heartbroken by the deaths of friends and disheartened by the loss of commissions to young artists, these talented painters and sculptors set out to carve their own tombs. Fate intervened to entrust Michelangelo with the most ambitious and difficult project of his long creative life.
Michelangelo, God’s Architect is the first book to tell the full story of the last two decades of Michelangelo’s life. When the peerless artist made himself the master architect of the Basilica of St. Peter and other large buildings. When the Pope gave Michelangelo control of the St. Peter in 1546, it was a study of weak architectural management, due to flawed design and faulty engineering. Michelangelo overcame fierce opposition from church officials to convince the Pope that it was time to start over.
