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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

By Ross , King

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Digital
Year
2012
ISBN
9781446418833, 9781844139323, 1446418839
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2892190 bytes)
Pages
384 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
ART--History--Renaissance;ART--Subjects & Themes--

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 hand-picked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending back-breaking hours on a scaffold fifty feet above 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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