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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
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- Released
- 2003
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ross King
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1844139328
- ISBN13
- 9781844139323
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies, Religious Topics, Art, Southern Europe, Italy, Art History & Criticism, History of Art, Rome, Roma, Gypsies, Renaissance, Rebirth
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- 3.95 out of 5
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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.