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Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling EPUB
by Dr Ross King
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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 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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- Pages:384 pages, 16 pp coloured plates, 40 integrated line drawings
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:31/10/2012
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- ISBN:9781446418833
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:384 pages, 16 pp coloured plates, 40 integrated line drawings
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:31/10/2012
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- ISBN:9781446418833