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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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- Année de publication
- 2003
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Ross King
- Éditeur
- Pimlico
- Publié
- 2003
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1844139328
- ISBN13
- 9781844139323
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art / Culture, Thème historique, Esotérisme & Religion, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire, Thèmes religieux, Art, Europe du Sud, Italie, Histoire et théorie de l’art, Histoire de l'art, Rome, Roms, Renaissance (époque), Renaissance
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- 3,95 sur 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.