by Ross King · Penguin Group USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780142003695
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«Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling» is the historical essay by Ross King, published by Penguin Group USA in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissions Michelangelo, a sculptor known for the David and with little experience as a painter, to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Ross King reconstructs the four years of work, until the unveiling in 1512, amid the intrigues of Rome, the artist's health and financial problems, and his rivalry with Raphael.
The work, originally published in 2002, appeared in this reissue in 2003. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category.
The book is aimed at readers interested in Renaissance art history and historical popularization.
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Ross King is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works.
