Book Description
Discusses the restoration of the side wall frescos in the Sistine Chapel by the great artists of the 15th century.
Author : Francesco Buranelli
Publisher : International Publishers Marketing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :
Discusses the restoration of the side wall frescos in the Sistine Chapel by the great artists of the 15th century.
Author : Carlo Pietrangeli
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Capturing all the glories of Michelangelo's masterpiece, this authoritative and readable study of Rome's most popular attraction offers the revelations of world-renowned historians and restorers deeply involved in restoring it. Over 300 full-color illustrations.
Author : Andrew Graham-Dixon
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1602393680
The story behind the timeless Renaissance revealed.
Author : Johannes Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Vatican City
ISBN : 9780856720109
Author : Antonio Paolucci
Publisher : Scripta Maneant Editori
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788895847535
Every day up to 22,000 tourists visit the Sistine Chapel. In collaboration with the Edizioni Musei Vaticani, this book reproduces close-up views of Michelangelo's supreme work in new photography of the restored Sistine Chapel. It covers the frescoes of the 15th century, the ceiling and the Last Judgement.
Author : Ulrich Pfisterer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606553X
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to decorate the chapel between 1481 and 1541, and with each new addition, fundamental themes found increasingly concrete expression. One overarching theme plays a central role in the chapel: the legitimization of papal authority, as symbolized by two keys—one silver, one gold—to the kingdom of heaven. The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome is a concise, informative account of the Sistine Chapel. In unpacking this complex history, Ulrich Pfisterer reveals the remarkable unity of the images in relation to theology, politics, and the intentions of the artists themselves, who included such household names as Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Through a study of the main campaigns to adorn the Sistine Chapel, Pfisterer argues that the art transformed the chapel into a pathway to the kingdom of God, legitimizing the absolute authority of the popes. First published in German, the prose comes to life in English in the deft hands of translator David Dollenmayer.
Author : Eunice D. Howe
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
v.48: Biondo, Flavio. Scritti inediti e rari di Biondo Flavio... 1927.
Author : Antonio Forcellino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1509549242
The Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the course of several decades in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to produce this extraordinary achievement of Western civilization. In this book, the art historian and restorer Antonio Forcellino tells the remarkable story of the Sistine Chapel, bringing his unique combination of knowledge and skills to bear on the conditions that led to its creation. Forcellino shows that Pope Sixtus IV embarked on the project as an attempt to assert papal legitimacy in response to Mehmed II's challenge to the Pope's spiritual leadership. The lower part of the chapel was decorated by a consortium of master painters whose frescoes, so coherent that they seem almost to have been painted by a single hand, represent the highest expression of the Quattrocento Tuscan workshops. Then, in 1505, Sixtus IV's nephew, Julius II, imposed a change in direction. Having been captivated by the prodigious talent of a young Florentine sculptor, Julius II summoned Michelangelo Buonarroti to Rome and commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Two decades later, Michelangelo returned to paint The Last Judgement, which covers the wall behind the alter. Michelangelo's revolutionary work departed radically from tradition and marked a turning point in the history of Western art. Antonio Forcellino brings to life the wonders of the Sistine Chapel by describing the aims and everyday practices of the protagonists who envisioned it and the artists who created it, reconstructing the material history that underlies this masterpiece.
Author :
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780802136107
Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.
Author : Carol F. Lewine
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Some decades before Michelangelo began work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, such masters as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino, and Signorelli were called to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV to decorate the walls. By 1483, these painters had completed two monumental fresco cycles illustrating the lives of Moses and Christ - works of complex, and sometimes puzzling, iconography. Carol F. Lewine shows that many long-standing questions posed by these Renaissance masterpieces can be resolved by systematic investigation of their undoubted links with the Roman liturgy. Her reconstruction of the scheme by which liturgical themes of the weeks between Christmas and Ascension Thursday are mirrored in the subjects of these frescoes has revealed, unexpectedly, that within this program the primary emphasis is on the liturgy of Lent, often on the Lenten liturgy of the early church, and on such Lenten themes as baptism and penitence. The discovery that these frescoes also refer to the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews, another ancient Lenten theme, suggests that Sixtus IV created the papal chapel that bears his name in order to commemorate the return of the popes from their "Babylonian Captivity" at Avignon. This exile ended in 1377, approximately one hundred years before Sixtus began to plan the major artistic enterprise of his pontificate. Lewine's approach to the interpretation of visual images in terms of their liturgical significance is in itself important and her argument, grounded in close visual inspection of the paintings, is ingenious and provocative. Her analyses of the interactions among narrative and symbol, text and image, form and meaning, offer stimulating contributions to quattrocento studies and encourage further consideration of all the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, together, as parts of an evolving ensemble.