Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling +++Signed+++

Ross King

ISBN 10: 0701171197 / ISBN 13: 9780701171193

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2002

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Chatto & Windus; 2002; An UNREAD, AS NEW in as new unclipped dw; FIRST Edition, FIRST Priinting, HARDBACK ; bound maroon cloth, gilt lettering spine *** Signed*** by author on title page. #F.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling +++Signed+++
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701171197
• ISBN 13: 9780701171193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

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Synopsis

“There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be,” wrote Vasari in his Lives of Artists.

The extraordinary story behind Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel - from the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi’s Dome.

In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Though he considered himself primarily a sculptor not a painter, he laboured over it for the next four years and the result was one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.

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 the onlookers. From Michelangelo’s experiments with the composition of pigment and plaster to his bitter rivalry with Raphael, who was working on the neighbouring Papal Apartments, Ross King paints a magnificent picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.

About the Author

Ross King was born in Canada in 1962 and completed a PhD in English Literature at York University in Toronto. He is the author of two novels and Brunelleschi’s Dome, (voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers in 2001). He lives in Oxford.