Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Ross King

352 pages hardcover 2002

14 editions

nonfiction art biography history tense slow-paced
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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 ...

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