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100 1  King, Ross,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 10 Michelangelo & the Pope's ceiling /|cRoss King. 
246 14 Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury,|c2014. 
264  4 |c©2003 
300    373 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates :|billustrations 
       (some color), portraits (some color), maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-356) and 
       index. 
505 0  The summons -- The conspiracy -- The warrior Pope -- 
       Penance -- Painting in the wet -- The design -- The 
       assistants -- The House of Buonarroti -- The fountains of 
       the great deep -- Competition -- A great quandary -- The 
       flaying of Marsyas -- True colors -- He shall build the 
       temple of the Lord -- Family business -- Laocoön -- The 
       golden age -- The school of Athens -- Forbidden fruit -- 
       The barbarous multitudes -- Bologna redux -- The world's 
       game -- A new and wonderful manner of painting -- The 
       first and supreme creator -- The expulsion of Heliodorus -
       - The monster of Ravenna -- Many strange forms -- The 
       armor of faith and the sword of light -- II Pensieroso -- 
       In evil plight -- Final touches -- Epilogue: The language 
       of the gods. 
520    In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the 
       powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint
       the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With 
       little experience as a painter (though famed for his 
       sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the 
       massive project. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling 
       recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent 
       laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics 
       and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled 
       around him. Battling against ill health, financial 
       difficulties, domestic problems, the pope's impatience, 
       and a bitter rivalry with the brilliant young painter 
       Raphael, Michelangelo created scenes so beautiful that 
       they are considered to be among the greatest masterpieces 
       of all time. A panorama of illustrious figures converged 
       around the creation of this magnificent work-from the 
       great Dutch scholar Erasmus to the young Martin Luther-and
       Ross King skillfully weaves them through his compelling 
       historical narrative, offering uncommon insight into the 
       intersection of art and history. 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. He 
       executed hundreds of drawings, many of which are 
       masterpieces in their own right. Contrary to legend, he 
       and his assistants worked standing rather than on their 
       backs, and after his years on the scaffold, Michelangelo 
       suffered a bizarre form of eyestrain that made it 
       impossible for him to read letters unless he held them at 
       arm's length. Nonetheless, he produced one of the greatest
       masterpieces of all time, about which Giorgio Vasari, in 
       his Lives of the Artists, wrote, 'There is no other work 
       to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be.' 
       Ross King's fascinating new book tells the story of those 
       four extraordinary years. Battling against ill health, 
       financial difficulties, domestic problems, inadequate 
       knowledge of the art of fresco, and the pope's impatience,
       Michelangelo created figures-depicting the Creation, the 
       Fall, and the Flood-so beautiful that, when they were 
       unveiled in 1512, they stunned his onlookers. Modern 
       anatomy has yet to find names for some of the muscles on 
       his nudes, they are painted in such detail. While he 
       worked, Rome teemed around him, its politics and rivalries
       with other city-states and with France at fever pitch, 
       often intruding on his work. 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. 
600 00 Michelangelo Buonarroti,|d1475-1564|xAppreciation. 
600 00 Michelangelo Buonarroti,|d1475-1564|xContemporaries. 
610 20 Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) 
630 00 Bible|vIllustrations. 
650  0 Mural painting and decoration, Italian|zVatican City. 
650  0 Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance|zVatican City. 
651  0 Italy|xHistory|y1492-1559.