| Availability: | In Stock |
| Author: | Ross King |
| Publisher: | Pimlico |
| ISBN: | 9781844139323 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Weight: | 0.30кг |
| Dimensions: | 20см X 13см X 3см |
867.00 грн
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.
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