2) In one century of strenuous research, a huge amount of source material about Michelangelo has been collected, reviewed, edited including letters poems, contracts, receipts, and biographies. Biographical and artistic data have been checked and rechecked, sometimes corroborating and sometimes correcting our previous ideas, and an abundance of new facts has been revealed. Long lost works have been rediscovered and every single known piece has been studied in its formal iconographic, genetic, and functional aspects. The artist's character, his daily habits, his working methods, his personal attitudes, and his artistic and political opinions have been traced as well as the peculiarities of the people with whom he had contact. Thus the modern history of art has formed an image of Michelangelo that is much nearer to the truth than those presented by his first biographers. We learn from the passage that over the past hundred years.,.............. a vast amount of new facts concerning Michelangelo have come to light 1) the research carried out about Michelangelo has proved inadequate and, in places, irrelevant ) scholars have concentrated solely upon Michelangelo's artistic creativity 1) in spite of much research, little has been learned about Michelangelo

2) In one century of strenuous research, a huge amount of source material about Michelangelo has been collected, reviewed, edited including letters poems, contracts, receipts, and biographies. Biographical and artistic data have been checked and rechecked, sometimes corroborating and sometimes correcting our previous ideas, and an abundance of new facts has been revealed. Long lost works have been rediscovered and every single known piece has been studied in its formal iconographic, genetic, and functional aspects. The artist's character, his daily habits, his working methods, his personal attitudes, and his artistic and political opinions have been traced as well as the peculiarities of the people with whom he had contact. Thus the modern history of art has formed an image of Michelangelo that is much nearer to the truth than those presented by his first biographers. We learn from the passage that over the past hundred years.,.............. a vast amount of new facts concerning Michelangelo have come to light 1) the research carried out about Michelangelo has proved inadequate and, in places, irrelevant ) scholars have concentrated solely upon Michelangelo's artistic creativity 1) in spite of much research, little has been learned about Michelangelo