Michael Angelo Buonarroti

The boy who would carve marble was nursed by a stone-carver’s daughter—and joked that her milk had taught him to love the chisel.

In fifteenth-century Florence, Michael Angelo’s father wants him to study letters, not pursue the art his family considers beneath them. But the boy slips away to draw, finds an ally in the painter Francesco Granacci, and is beaten for refusing to give up his calling. His first painted panel, crowded with demons, sends him studying the fish-market for the scales, fins, and eyes that will make them lifelike. Soon, the Medici gardens offer a new school: antique sculptures, and a weathered Faun’s head that calls for a chisel. How far will a boy’s stubborn eye take him?

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