Three Titans

Profiles of Michelangelo Rembrandt and Beethoven.Even in their destinies the three masters are comparable for their characters were essentially akin and so drew down on each a similar fate. They were all throughout life misanthropical enigmatic distrustful; and at certain periods each approached the borderland of madness. Despite their prodigious successes all three had been perpetually in conflict with the world; Michelangelo strove for power Rembrandt for luxury Beethoven for love; but each attained his desire only by fits and starts and always at the cost of bitter experiences. All three lost the few men and women whom they loved.