Michelangelo, a double audiobook to learn about his works

Finestre Sull’Arte presents Michelangelo, a double audiobook to learn about the works of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564), one of the greatest artists in Italian art history. The audiobook, part of the series The Sixteenth Century in Florence, launched in July by our magazine, takes the listener on a discovery of Michelangelo’s works, historical and cultural context, life and special features of his art.

From early masterpieces such as the Madonna of the Staircase and the Battle of the Centaurs, both housed in Casa Buonarroti, to extreme works such as the Bandini Pietà and the Rondanini Pietà, passing through the great feats of the Vatican Pietà, the David, the Sistine Chapel and the Pauline Chapel. There will also be insights into particularly important and dense works such as the Tondo Doni or the sculptures made for the Medici tombs, and there will also be a focus on the Rime, the wonderful poems that Michelangelo composed.

The double audiobook, with a total duration of more than an hour and a half, can be purchased on the online shop of Finestre sull’Arte, has a total cost of 9 euros (but it is also possible to buy the two individual volumes, priced at 4.50 euros each). The entire series The Sixteenth Century in Florence (ten artists, eleven volumes, for a total of almost ten hours of listening) can instead be purchased at the discounted price of 29.90 euros (instead of 49.50). Free excerpts are available on the shop, and you can use the online real-time support to request information. Otherwise, you can send an e-mail to audiolibri@finestresullarte.info.

Here is the description on the cover of the audiobook: “One of the most celebrated artists in the entire history of art, a genius recognized by his contemporaries who used the most varied adjectives to define his incredible masterpieces, a man with a restless and tormented life, a poet capable of writing rhymes full of love: Michelangelo, in our imagination, is all this, and more. In the nearly ninety years of his life he produced marvelous works of art that have become world icons of beauty and perfection, but he also knew how to give life to sculptures and paintings that concealed great suffering and subversive ideas. Michelangelo was a revolutionary artist, and after him the history of art has never been the same.”

Michelangelo, a double audiobook to learn about his works

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