Download or read book Creating the "Divine" Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo written by Patricia Emison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of why Michelangelo first, and then many other, Renaissance artists and works were called "divine" by contemporaries, this study ranges from fourteenth-century praise of Dante to a variety of sixteenth-century habits of courtly compliment.