The Agony and the Ecstasy

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought…

If you like book The Agony and the Ecstasy here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost th…
Buy this book on Amazon
Leonardo's Notebooks

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.

Leonardo da Vinci—artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man—is a perennial sourc…
Buy this book on Amazon
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)

New York Times Bestseller

The project that captured a nation's imagination.

The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.

You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Art Forger

A Barbara A. Shapiro tour de force.

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolve…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Story of Art

Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art historical literature, this book reflects the vast knowledge, insights, and expertise of one of this cen…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ways of Seeing

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series…
Buy this book on Amazon
Pompeii

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in M…
Buy this book on Amazon
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (th…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Painter's Apprentice (Venetian Artisans, #1)

Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you'd better decide quickly.

Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more th…
Buy this book on Amazon
An Object of Beauty

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms…
Buy this book on Amazon
Good Faeries/Bad Faeries

"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence,…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Shock of the New

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. More than 250 color photos.
Buy this book on Amazon
Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)

Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. —Sabine

But Griffin had never met a wom…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Lives of the Artists

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Giorgio Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development …
Buy this book on Amazon
Dali the Paintings: Volume I, 1904-1946; Volume II, 1946-1989

This publication presents in 2 volumes in a box the entire painted oeuvre of Salvadore Dali (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret finally located all the painti…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Muralist

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger comes a thrilling new novel of art, history, love, and politics that traces the life and mysterious disappearance of a brilliant young a…
Buy this book on Amazon
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sa…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol—which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a …
Buy this book on Amazon
Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Jackson Pollock, have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly r…
Buy this book on Amazon
Faeries

Edited by David Larkin. Two talented artists explore the world of faeries in myths, legends, and folklore.
Buy this book on Amazon