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Recounts Michelangelo's creation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and discusses modern efforts to restore the artwork
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From Publishers Weekly
Nippon TV, a Japanese channel best known for its quiz shows and baseball coverage, underwrote the cleaning and restoration of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes in return for exclusive media rights to the restored ceiling. The "bright, light, colorful, and uplifting Renaissance spectacle" emerging from the ongoing restoration has helped replace the myth of a "grim, black, troubled" Michelangelo as agonized godlike sufferer, with the impression of a down-to-earth artist, clear-eyed and rational. This delightfully irreverent, psychologically astute on-the-scene report gives us a Michelangelo who took shortcuts, repeated himself and eradicated his mistakes, a snob who tried to cover up his origins, tolerated no competitors and was obsessed with money. Arts editor for a British TV network, Januszczak throws a sharp light on art world politics, Renaissance studies and the Japanese yen for Western culture. The book, however, would have benefited from illustrations.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Despite the author's credentials as former art and literary critic for The Guardian , readers will find no serious exposition of fact here. Flip commentary posing as criticism alternates with fiction, movie dialog, episodes of torture, and emphasis on sexual practices and prowess. There is real controversy over the 1980s conservation and cleaning of the Sistine Chapel, sponsored by a Japanese TV network, but Januszcak does little more than muddy the issues while supporting the results. Not recommended as art criticism.
- Mary Hamel - Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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