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The Sistine Chapel : paradise in Rome

Title
The Sistine Chapel : paradise in Rome / Ulrich Pfisterer ; translated by David Dollenmayer.
Author
Pfisterer, Ulrich, 1968-
Publication
  • Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Dollenmayer, David B.
  • Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
Description
xiii, 162 pages : illustrations (some color); 20 cm
Summary
"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.
Uniform Title
Sixtinische Kapelle. English
Alternative Title
Sixtinische Kapelle.
Subject
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
  • Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)
  • Mural painting and decoration, Italian > Vatican City
  • Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance > Vatican City
  • Mural painting and decoration, Italian
  • Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance
  • ARCHITECTURE / Religious Buildings
  • Vatican City
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • "Originally published in German as Die Sixtinische Kapelle, by Ulrich Pfisterer."--ECIP galley.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the German.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781606065532
  • 160606553X
LCCN
2017056250
OCLC
  • on1005684539
  • SCSB-9135689
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library