Bibliograph

Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling, Ross King

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Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling, Ross King

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and index

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contains biographical information

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50961024

Responsibility statement

Ross King

Summary

In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary ... Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. [This book] recounts the ... story of the four ... years [Michelangelo] spent laboring over the twelve thousand square feet of the ... ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries [of Rome battled around him]

Table Of Contents

Summons -- Conspiracy -- Warrior pope -- Penance -- Painting in the wet -- Design -- Assistants -- House of Buonarroti -- Fountains of the great deep -- Competition -- Great Quandary -- Flaying of Marsyas -- True colors -- He shall build the temple of the Lord -- Family business -- Laocoon -- Golden age -- School of Athens -- Forbidden fruit -- Barbarous multitudes -- Bologna redux -- World's game -- New and wonderful manner of painting -- First and Supreme Creator -- Expulsion of Heliodorus -- Monster of Ravenna -- Many strange forms -- Armor of faith and the sword of light -- Il Pensieroso -- In evil plight -- Final touches -- Epilogue: the language of the gods

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Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling

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