In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This fascinating book tells the story of those four extraordinary years and paints a magnificent picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - and outs
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This fascinating book tells the story of those four extraordinary years and paints a magnificent picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - and outside, in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.
