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Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling - Softcover

King, Dr Ross

 
9781844139323: Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844139328 ISBN 13: 9781844139323
Verlag: Pimlico, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ross King is a renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books include Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, Leonardo and the Last Supper and Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies. His love of Renaissance Florence, which he has been studying, writing and lecturing about for over twenty years, made Vespasiano’s long-forgotten story – never written about before – an irresistible next subject. He lives just outside Oxford.

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Verlag
Pimlico
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844139328
ISBN 13 
9781844139323
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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