The Sistine Chapel : paradise in Rome /
Pfisterer, Ulrich,1968-author.
Dollenmayer, David B.,translator.
Getty Research Institute,publisher.
"Originally published in German as Die Sixtinische Kapelle, by Ulrich Pfisterer"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue at the door of heaven -- Paradise in contention: the "foremost chapel in the world" and Sixtus IV -- Triumphal gate and entrance hall to the city of God: Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes and Julius II -- Tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and the heavenly Jerusalem: Raphael's tapestries and Leo X -- The gate to eternity: Michelangelo's Last judgment, Clement VII, and Paul III -- Epilogue in purgatory: art history and the myth of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
Mural painting and decoration, Italian
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance
Mural painting and decoration, Italian.
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance.
Sixtinische Kapelle.