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100	1		_aKing, Ross
245	1	0	_aMichelangelo & the Pope's ceiling _c/ Ross King
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Books _c, c2003.
300			_a373 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aIn 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapel's ceiling. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant, and he stormed away from Rome, risking Julius's wrath, only to be persuaded to eventually begin. Michelangelo would spend the next four years laboring over the vast ceiling. From Michelangelo's experiments with the composition of pigment and plaster to his bitter competition with the famed painter Raphael, who was working on the neighboring Papal Apartments, Ross King presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Rome.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aMichelangelo Buonarroti _d, 1475-1564
610	1	4	_a Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
650		4	_aMural painting and decoration, Italian _z-Vatican City.
651		4	_aItaly _x-History _y-1492 - 1559.
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