Michelangelo's World Book

Introduction     7
Michelangelo's Birth (March 6, 1475)     8
Years of Youth (1485-1495)     11
Who Was Michelangelo?     13
On Friendship     15
Bonfire of the Vanities (1497)     17
The Pieta (1498-1500)     18
The David (1501-1504)     21
The Doni Tondo (c. 1504)     23
The Sistine Ceiling (1508-1512)     24
Painting on High (1508-1512)     29
Moses (c. 1513-1516)     31
On Love     33
Last Judgment (1536-1541)     34
St. Peter's (1546-1564)     36
Michelangelo's Death (February 18, 1564)     38
Bibliography     40