Martin Gayford studied philosophy at Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute. He is the art critic of the Spectator, and contributes regularly to the Daily Telegraph, Modern Painters and Harpers & Queen. He is married, with two children, and lives in Cambridge. His latest book is The Yellow House- Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles.
An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in
command of a huge body of research -- Philip Hensher * Mail on
Sunday *
One of our most distinguished writers on what makes modern artists
tick . . . It is very difficult to cut through the thicket of
generations of scholarship and say anything new about David, the
Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement, the Basilica of St Peter's or
many of Michelangelo's other masterpieces, but Gayford manages to
do so by encouraging us to think - and look - at both the obvious
and the overlooked * Sunday Telegraph *
It is a measure of [Michelangelo's] magnitude, and Gayford's skill
in capturing it, that you finish this book wishing that
Michelangelo had lived longer and created more -- Rachel Spence *
FT *
Only the most ambitious biographer can take on the talent of
Michelangelo Buonarroti * The Times *
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