Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling
€18.95
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781844139323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dr Ross King |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.290 |
| Publishing Date | 06/04/2006 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €17.88 |
| Tax | €1.07 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €18.95 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.