The Sistine Chapel : paradise in Rome /
"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...
Enregistré dans:
Uniform title: | Sixtinische Kapelle. |
---|---|
Author / Creator: | |
Other Authors / Creators: | Dollenmayer, David B., translator. |
Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Getty Research Institute, issuing body. |
Format: | Livre |
Langue: | English German |
Imprint: | Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2018] |
Sujets: |
Table des matières:
- 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.