ENGLISH

Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling

By Ross King

Book information

Publisher
Pimlico
Year
2006
ISBN
1844139328, 9781844139323
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2029299 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Time added
2014-02-05 22:29:53

Description

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted. Nevertheless, for the next four years he and a handpicked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending backbreaking hours on a scaffolding fifty feet about the floor. The result was one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. This fascinating book tells the story of those four extraordinary years and paints a magnificent picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding — and outside, in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.

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