{"product_id":"michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling-9781844139323","title":"Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ross King\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pimlico\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pimlico\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless, for the next four years he and a hand-picked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending back-breaking hours on a scaffold fifty feet above the floor. The result was one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. This fascinating book tells the story of those four extraordinary years and paints a magnificent picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - and outside, in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pimlico","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085182984343,"sku":"9781844139323","price":840.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781844139323.webp?v=1767637653","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling-9781844139323","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}