About the book
This book takes us into the life of the divine Michelangelo through the arcane keys and unfathomable mysteries that furrow the folds of La Pietà , in the disturbing gaze of Moses, in the perfect hand of David, in the works of the greatest artist in history. A work that reveals the secrets that forged the legend of the creator of the Sistine Chapel, the neoplatonic and cabalistic connections in his works and the hermeticism of his terribilità .
It is not easy to delve into the soul, the work and the teachings of a Renaissance genius, since precisely that era that we Europeans venerate for its “human” progress (humanism) introduces us with mysterious lights and reflections into brilliant and surprising lives that, paraphrasing Nietzsche, seem “too human” to the point of bordering on the dimensions of the angelic and the divine.
All of Michelangelo’s work is conceived with that disturbing perspective that places terrestrial matter in a cosmic dimension.
The sculptor was insatiable when it came to the perfection of his work. He would spend months in Carrara, choosing blocks of marble. But the secret of his art lay precisely in the ability to find a soul in stones, a beyond in matter, and a transcendence in death. He saw mountains as sculptural material and imagined hills transformed into statues. That is why, in his youth, he dared to dispute a block of marble with Leonardo da Vinci. Without a doubt, he had discovered that, inside it, a David was hidden.
No one could compare with him in the art of imagining gigantic figures in superb attitudes. He had the instinct of a sculptor, capable of drawing in space, a detail that is very important for working in the perspective of a vault, reducing and enlarging the forms in appropriate angles.
«I trace Michelangelo’s life – Thor Jurodovich tells us – through his legacy, to delve into the unfathomable mysteries and arcane keys that accompanied him throughout his life. I unravel his works to show the man, what his longings and desires were, whom he loved and whom he hated, a life full of disputes and achievements and a life between torment and ecstasy.»
Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/el-enigma-miguel-angel
