Stephanie Storey – författare

In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself.Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to support them. Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak. Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving.Meanwhile, Leonardo''s life is falling apart: he loses the hoped-for David commission; he can''t seem to finish any project; he is obsessed with his ungainly flying machine; he almost dies in war; his engineering designs disastrously fail; and he is haunted by a woman he has seen in the market--a merchant''s wife, whom he is finally commissioned to paint. Her name is Lisa, and she becomes his muse.Leonardo despises Michelangelo for his youth and lack of sophistication. Michelangelo both loathes and worships Leonardo''s genius.Oil and Marble is the story of their nearly forgotten rivalry. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Leonardo y Miguel Ángel es la extraordinaria historia de una olvidada rivalidad.Florencia, año 1501. Miguel Ángel Buonarroti es prácticamente un desconocido cuando regresa a su ciudad natal y consigue el encargo de tallar, a partir de un deforme bloque de mármol, la que se convertirá en la escultura más famosa de todos los tiempos: el David. Pero pasan las semanas, y, bloqueado por la magnitud del trabajo, rendido ante la gigantesca piedra, Miguel Ángel se desespera… hasta que el mármol comienza a hablarle. Entonces da inicio un febril trabajo de cincelaje, siempre bajo la espada de Damocles de la inminente fecha límite de entrega.Mientras tanto, la vida de Leonardo Da Vinci se desmorona: pierde el ansiado encargo de esculpir el David; parece no poder acabar ningún proyecto; vive obsesionado con sus fallidos intentos por volar; está a punto de morir en combate, sus diseños mecánicos fallan estrepitosamente y se encuentra hechizado por una mujer que ha conocido en el mercado, la esposa de un mercader, cuyo retrato acepta pintar por encargo del marido. Su nombre es Lisa, y se convertirá en su musa.Leonardo desprecia la juventud y la falta de sofisticación de Miguel Ángel. Y Miguel Ángel detesta y venera al mismo tiempo la genialidad de Leonardo.Stephanie Storey nos traslada de forma magistral al inicio del siglo XVI, concretamente a Florencia, la ciudad que será el centro mundial de las artes en esos años, y consigue entrar con una sensibilidad extraordinaria en las mentes y las almas de los dos grandes maestros del Renacimiento.