Michelangelo’s Tomb for Pope Julius II: Genesis and Genius

edited by Christoph Luitpold Frommel, translated by A. Lawrence Jenkens JrYale, £50, pp. 368

‘How often’, wrote Sigmund Freud in 1914, ‘have I mounted the steep steps from the unlovely Corso Cavour to the lonely piazza where the church stands, and have essayed to support the angry scorn of the heroic glance.’