He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. This fast-paced adventure blends together a modern-day treasure hunt with historic accounts of Lorenzo de’Medici in Renaissance Florence in an international thriller with plenty of dark twists and exciting turns.Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( Italian: 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo ( English: / ˌ m aɪ k əl ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ, ˌ m ɪ k-/ ), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. However, word gets out and Jack soon realizes he’s not the only one interested in finding it…a deadly and elusive assassin attempts to seize control, throwing Jack into a series of harrowing escapades – riding horseback through the streets of Siena, discovering clues inside ancient cathedrals, deciphering 500 year-old cryptosystems, and navigating an underground labyrinth in order to solve a secret so powerful it could change the world forever.
As they dig deeper, Jack stumbles across a secret – the infamous Medici treasure is real. He joins with Chester Allen, a scientist from surveillance enterprise TerraTEK Industries, and together they begin to unravel the mystery of the Medici letters in hopes of determining what happened in the Alps.
Kat’s husband, professor and classicist – Jack Cullen, rushes to investigate. Archaeologist Kat Cullen comes across a map that leads her to the Swiss Alps where her partner is murdered and she is left for dead. A trove of letters belonging to the Medici family is discovered underground. The Renaissance – our most fundamental age of technological and artistic advance, was built upon a secret passed down to a banking family in Florence – the Medici.įlorence, Italy, present day. The origins of western civilization discovered.
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