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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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Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling, Ross King
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2003
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Ross King
- Editore
- Pimlico
- Pubblicato
- 2003
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1844139328
- ISBN13
- 9781844139323
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Arte / Cultura, Tema stórico, Storia, Storie vere, Esoterismo e religione, Biografie, Temi religiosi, Arte, Italia, Europa Meridionale, Storia e teoria dell’arte, Storia dell'arte, Roma, Rom, Rinascimento, Rinascita
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.