Three Titans Author:Emil Ludwig 1930. With portraits. Profiles of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven. From the Preface: 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 t... more »he borderland of madness. Despite their prodigious successes, all three had been perpetually in conflict with the world; Michael Angelo 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. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less