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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapel's ceiling. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant, and he stormed away from Rome, risking Julius's wrath, only to be persuaded to eventually begin. Michelangelo would spend the next four years laboring over the vast ceiling. He executed hundreds of drawings, many of which are masterpieces in their own right. Contrary to legend, he and his assistants worked standing rather than on their backs, and after his years on the scaffold, Michelangelo suffered a bizarre form of eyestrain that made it impossible for him to read letters unless he held them at arm's length. Nonetheless, he produced one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, about which Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists, wrote, "There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be." Ross King's fascinating new book tells the story of those four extraordinary years. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the pope's impatience, Michelangelo created figures--depicting the Creation, the Fall, and the Flood--so beautiful that, when they were unveiled in 1512, they stunned his onlookers. Modern anatomy has yet to find names for some of the muscles on his nudes, they are painted in such detail. While he worked, Rome teemed around him, its politics and rivalries with other city-states and with France at fever pitch, often intruding on his work. From Michelangelo's experiments with the composition of pigment and plaster to his bitter competition with the famed painter Raphael, who was working on the neighboring Papal Apartments, Ross King presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Rome.

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Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802713955
ISBN-13
9780802713957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Author
Ross King
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Europe / Italy, Religious, Buildings / Religious, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Historical, Decorative Arts, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Design, Biography & Autobiography, Art, Architecture, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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1in
Item Height
1in
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1in
Item Weight
16 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Nd623.B9k55 2002
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-283284
Dewey Decimal
759.5
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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This is an awesome book, i would definately reccommend it for anyone who is interested in Art, Architecture, Michelangelo, or just wants to read a good book. Pick it up if you can. It will open your mind to the technical feat that Michelangelo went through to paint it.
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