Michelangelo--the Last Judgment
Subtitle: a glorious restoration
By: texts by Loren Partridge, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gianluigi Colalucci ; photographs by Takashi Okamura ; texts by F. Mancinelli and G. Colalucci translated from the Italian by Lawrence Jenkens.
Contributors: Colalucci, Gianluigi.; Mancinelli, Fabrizio.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation; Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City); Judgment Day in art; Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Conservation and restoration -- Vatican City; Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance -- Conservation and restoration -- Vatican City
Description: Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (1534), painted on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, is considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece and one of the most important works in the history of art. In this book, the newly cleaned and restored fresco is presented in all its powerful complexity.

Richly illustrated with 150 magnificent full-color images - showing the painting both in its entirety and in many close-up details - the book offers an in-depth study of the work itself and of the restoration process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-206)
Simultaneously published in Italian.