The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 350 reproductions of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural plans and views, this impressive tome offers new insight on St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Tomb of Pope Julius II, and Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio. A larger than life artist if there ever was one, Michelangelo can be glimpsed here through his pencil portraits of friends, his dramatic and fanciful doodles, and his wooden model of San Lorenzo's facade. The many texts here cover the artist's career and influence, with in-depth discussions of his how his singular talent developed.