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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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- 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