Michelangelo's Surprise
Tony Parillo
Hardcover
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Sept. 30, 1998)
Piero, a page in the Medici court in fifteenth-century Florence, hunts through the palazzo for his father and finds him helping the artist Michelangelo sculpt a snowman. "The tour of the Renaissance palazzo is good and provocative, while the paintings are architecturally savvy and washed in Mediterranean color."-Kirkus Reviews
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