Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
King, Ross
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 handpicked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending backbreaking hours on a scaffolding fifty feet about 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.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2012
প্রকাশক:
Random House;Vintage Digital
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
384
ISBN 10:
1844139328
ISBN 13:
9781844139323
ফাইল:
EPUB, 2.76 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2012