Lavishly illustrated account of the life, career, achievements and times of the greatest Renaissance genius, Michelangelo, with background information on other artists of that era.

"Nicholas Coughlan's father's decision to abandon his career in the civil service to become a painter plunges the family into uncertainty and suffering, destroying his son's childhood. On an island off the opposite coast of Ireland, Isabel Gore's family is struck by tragedy when a seizure leaves her brother, a musical prodigy, mute. Two ordinary families have been marked by grief. Years later, on the day of Isabel's wedding to aman she doesn't...