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Pfisterer, Ulrich, 1968- author.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Vatican City.
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance -- Vatican City.
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The Sistine Chapel :...
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The Sistine Chapel : paradise in Rome / Ulrich Pfisterer ; translated by David Dollenmayer.
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Pfisterer, Ulrich, 1968- author.
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2018]
Subjects
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- Vatican City.
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance -- Vatican City.
ISBN:
9781606065532 (paperback) :
160606553X
Description:
xiii, 162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Contents:
Prologue at the door of heaven -- Paradise in contention: the "foremost chapel in the world" and Sixtus IV -- Triumphal gate and entrance hall to the city of God: Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes and Julius II -- Tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and the heavenly Jerusalem: Raphael's tapestries and Leo X -- The gate to eternity: Michelangelo's Last judgment, Clement VII, and Paul III -- Epilogue in purgatory: art history and the myth of the Sistine Chapel.
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"The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome is a scholarly yet accessible history of the Sistine Chapel. Through a study of the main campaigns to adorn the chapel, Ulrich Pfisterer argues that art transformed the chapel into a pathway to the kingdom of God, legitimizing the absolute authority of the popes"--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
759.5 Michelangelo Buonarroti Pf
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Adult Nonfiction
759.5 Pf
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Wailuku Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
759.5 Pf
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