Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King · first published 2003
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"In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the challenging curved surfaces of vaults. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant: He stormed away from Rome, incurring Julius's wrath, before he was eventually persuaded to
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A couple additions I would suggest (keeping with the theme of non-fiction interesting to the general reader, not industry-specific works): * Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King * The Invention of Air - Steven Johnson * The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan Other suggestions?
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on “Sistine Chapel” ↗…Filoppo instead of Filippo Marinetti? I am puzzled by the lack of rigor commonly observed in English writing when it comes to non-English names or non-English words more generally. I am reading the book "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" about Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel, and 50% of the Italian words or phrases have errors. What are the editors for? PS, Mussolini died in 1945, not technically. Technically, or to be…
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