Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.
Full description- Publisher: PIMLICO
- Published: 08 May 2006
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: Art History: Renaissance | Paintings | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Biography: General
- ISBN 13: 9781844139323 ISBN 10: 1844139328
- Sales rank: 77,381
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Full description for Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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.
