Oil and Marble A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Name: Oil and Marble
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Author: Stephanie Storey

Auteur: Stephanie Storey

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Stephanie Storey

Engels
Paperback
9781628729061
19 juni 2018
320 pagina's

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Stephanie Storey

Stephanie Storey’s debut novel Oil and Marble was hailed as “tremendously entertaining” by The New York Times, was named one of Hudson Booksellers’ Best Books of 2016, is a Los Angeles Times and #1 Amazon bestseller, and is currently in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures. Her newest novel, Raphael, Painter in Rome, is due out in April 2020 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death (April 1520). Stephanie has a degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and attended a PhD program in Art History, before leaving to get her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has studied art in Italy and been on a pilgrimage to see every Michelangelo on display in Europe. She has also been a national television producer for nearly twenty years in Los Angeles for shows including Alec Baldwin on ABC, Arsenio Hall for CBS, and Emmy-nominated The Writers’ Room on the Sundance Channel. When not writing novels or producing television, she can usually be found — with her husband, an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer — traveling the world in search of her next story.

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In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself.

Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to support them. Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak. Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving.

Meanwhile, Leonardo's life is falling apart: he loses the hoped-for David commission; he can't seem to finish any project; he is obsessed with his ungainly flying machine; he almost dies in war; his engineering designs disastrously fail; and he is haunted by a woman he has seen in the market--a merchant's wife, whom he is finally commissioned to paint. Her name is Lisa, and she becomes his muse.

Leonardo despises Michelangelo for his youth and lack of sophistication. Michelangelo both loathes and worships Leonardo's genius.

Oil and Marble is the story of their nearly forgotten rivalry.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 19 juni 2018
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Stephanie Storey
Hoofduitgeverij: Arcade Publishing

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 141 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 206 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 420 g

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EAN: 9781628729061

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Historische romans

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Taal: Engels
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Periode: Oudheid, Middeleeuwen
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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- Anoniem2126
- 24 maart 2020
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Een goed schreven boek die ik met plezier heb gelezen met historische inzichten. Aanrader

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