Summary
Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Vault
The art historian's book about the four-year work of Michelangelo Buonaroti, the great Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, builder and poet, on painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Writing about the creation of Michelangelo's masterpiece, King also describes the historical circumstances, the political life of Florence and Rome at the time, and artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Bramante.
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