This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.
The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo loved young men. In 1532 he began a courtship with the love of his life. But Tommaso Cavalieri came from a distinguished, conventional Roman family and was shocked by the artist's passion. Michelangelo's unrequited love profoundly affected his art, and legend has it that Christ's face in the Sistine Chapel is Cavalieri's. Read about their relationship and many other creative encounters that changed the world.
Contents: Martin Behaim and George Holzschuher, Michelangelo and Tommaso Cavalieri, Galileo Galilei and Hans Lippershey's Telescope, Frederick the Great and Bach, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Beethoven and Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Haydon's Immortal Dinner, Joseph Niepce and Louis Daguerre, John Millais and William Holman Hunt, Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, Wagner and Ludwig II, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Klimt and Emilie Flöge, J.M. Barrie and Peter Llewellyn Davies, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Philip Heseltine and Delius, Dali and Gala, Picasso and Dora Maar, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Gates and Paul Allen