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Agony And The Ecstacy The Agony and the Ecstacy depicts Michelangelo's struggle to become the embodiment of Renaissance humanism. In the course of the novel Michelangelo must overcome the interference of his family, religious dogma, political intrigue, papal patronage, military campaigns, and artistic jealousy to realize his artistic ambition. Despite his father's opposition, twelve-year-old Michelangelo becomes an apprentice, first to painter Ghirlandaio and then to Bertoldo, a sculptor, who directs a school financed by Lorenzo de' Medici, patron of Florentine art. Michelangelo quickly wins Lorenzo's esteem, meets his children (among Them two future popes, Giulio and Giovanni, and Contessina, his first love), Approximate words: 1849 Approximate pages: 8

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