with his ambitions and his frustrations, his longings and his fears. He wanted clarity and beauty, earthly satisfaction and divine reward. "The folio is not merely a site for drafting poetry," Barkan writes, "but the ground where he sketches out the contradictions of his life." The artist struggled to understand his creative gifts in relation to his possible salvation. Michelangelo wrote, "Art and death do not go well together: in what, then, should I place my greatest hope?"from The Washington Post: Leonard Barkan's "Michelangelo: A Life on Paper"
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