Michelangelo and the Finger of God (Issues in the History of Art)

Focusing on Michelangelo's art and biography, Michelangelo and the Finger of God investigates the artist's persona in relation to Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the Bible. Insisting that the distinction between the real Michelangelo, who is more than the sum of the facts, and the Michelangelo of myth is a false distinction indeed, a distortion Barolsky shows how the biography of the artist was shape by the very works he carved and painted.