The Sistine secrets : Michelangelo's forbidden messages in the heart of the Vatican

Blech, Benjamin.

Book 2009

Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world-the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. This book tells how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in h...

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Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 Criticism and interpretation

Mural painting and decoration, Italian Vatican City

Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance Vatican City

Symbolism in art

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ISBN:

9780061469053
006146905X

Edition:

First HarperCollins paperback edition

Description:

xvi, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index

Contents:

In the beginning
What is the Sistine Chapel?
Lost language of art
A rebel is born
A very special education
Out of the garden and into the world
As fate would have it
A private tour of the Sistine Temple
Crossing the threshold
The vault of heaven
The house of David
The four corners of the universe
A company of prophets
The middle path
Parting shots
Beyond the ceiling
Back on the scene
Secrets of The Last Judgment
Later secrets --"A world transfigured"
Conclusion: so, what is the Sistine Chapel?

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373698

Other Authors:

Doliner, Roy, 1932-2015

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