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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Door Ross King
| Categorie | Algemeen Kunst |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #408610 |
| Titel | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling |
| Auteur | King, Ross |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
| Uitgeverij | London : Chatto & Windus |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2002 |
| ISBN10 | 0701171197 |
| ISBN13 | 9780701171193 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original burgundy cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been strongly advised against doing so. At 12,000 square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted; and the thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco. Indeed, Michelangelo himself was reluctant, considering himself a sculptor rather than a painter. 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. 'There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be, ' wrote Vasari in his Lives of Artists. Ross King's fascinating new book tells the story of those four extraordinary years, Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems and inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, Michelangelo created figures so beautiful that, when they were unveiled in 1512, they stunned onlookers, Working with brushes made from hogs |
| Pagina's | 371 |
| Conditie | Goed |
| Prijs | € 10,00 |
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