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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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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600

• Full title: Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling
• Author: Ross King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781844139323
• ISBN: 1844139328
• ID: 04263095
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. April 2006

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