Finally reading this one (published the same year I was born), the biographical novel of the life of Michelangelo, and I am lost in it. (Don't tell me how it turns out - does he get the Sistine Chapel commission? Does he ever finish his sculpture of David?)
Sculpture, and the artists that create sculpture, have for long been a fascination of mine. Am also reading a biography of Camille Claudel, the famous 19th century French sculptor and "friend" of the even more famous sculptor, Auguste Rodin. She would have prospered in our times, much more than she did in the late 1880's.
Also reading "Green Eggs and Ham", nightly...
Sculpture, and the artists that create sculpture, have for long been a fascination of mine. Am also reading a biography of Camille Claudel, the famous 19th century French sculptor and "friend" of the even more famous sculptor, Auguste Rodin. She would have prospered in our times, much more than she did in the late 1880's.
Also reading "Green Eggs and Ham", nightly...
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Fri, March 25, 2005 - 8:08 PMI would not, could not in a box. I would not could not with a fox. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I am.
I could go on and I do not even have the book. Do ya think I read this a few times myself? This one and Put me in the Zoo are my favorites.
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Fri, March 25, 2005 - 8:14 PMThat is some ambitious reading. I am humbled.
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Sat, March 26, 2005 - 7:41 AMI'm partial to "the foot book" myself.
Left foot left foot left foot right. Feet in the morning feet at night!
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Mon, March 28, 2005 - 8:24 AMI will not, WILL not with a goat...
(speaking of nannys...)
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Mon, March 28, 2005 - 1:53 PMI LOVED "The Agony and the Ecstacy". You'll enjoy it.
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Mon, March 28, 2005 - 3:50 PMI do so like green eggs and ham!
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Wed, March 30, 2005 - 8:01 PMhas anyone thought of joining buGG's tribe?
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Re: "The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone
Wed, May 4, 2005 - 9:21 AMFinally finished this a couple of nights ago, and reading it was mostly ecstacy, though it isn't particularly "beautifully" written, just a good story about a great artist, with very human problems and challenges. It was interesting to be reading this, with so much of it taking place in Rome and Michaelangelo's dealings with several Popes, at a time when we have lost and then elected a new one (right there in the Sistine Chapel) in our own time. Also found a blurb in a recent "National Geographic" about the Medici, their deaths, and the tombs that Michaelangelo carved for them.
If you haven't read this yet, and are interested, I'd be happy to mail you my copy. Just send me a message (don't post your address here)...
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