The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Forcellino Antonio
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Forcellino Antonio The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a…
Specifikacia The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Forcellino Antonio
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece Forcellino Antonio
The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Forcellino shows that Pope Sixtus IV embarked on the project as an attempt to assert papal legitimacy in response to Mehmed II's challenge to the Pope's spiritual leadership. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the course of several decades in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to produce this extraordinary achievement of Western civilization.In this book, the art historian and restorer Antonio Forcellino tells the remarkable story of the Sistine Chapel, bringing his unique combination of knowledge and skills to bear on the conditions that led to its creation.
The lower part of the chapel was decorated by a consortium of master painters whose frescoes, so
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