Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling

384 Pages·2006·1.94 MB·english

by  Ross King

Contents
COVER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MAP OF ITALY
MAP OF ROME
DEDICATION
TITLE PAGE
1. The Summons
2. The Conspiracy
3. The Warrior Pope
4. Penance
5. Painting in the Wet
6. The Design
7. The Assistants
8. The House of Buonarroti
9. The Fountains of the Great Deep
10. Competition
11. A Great Quandary
12. The Flaying of Marsyas
13. True Colours
14. Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
15. Family Business
16. Laocoön
17. The Golden Age
18. The School of Athens
19. Forbidden Fruit
20. The Barbarous Multitudes
21. Bologna Redux
22. The World’s Game
23. A New and Wonderful Manner of Painting
24. The First and Supreme Creator
25. The Expulsion of Heliodorus
26. The Monster of Ravenna
27. Many Strange Forms
28. The Armour of Faith and the Sword of Light
29. Il Pensieroso
30. In Evil Plight
31. Final Touches
EPILOGUE: THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS
PICTURE SECTION
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
COPYRIGHT
About the Author
Ross King is the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, a highly praised account
of how the Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed the dome of
Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year
by American Independent Booksellers in 2001). He has also written two
novels, Domino and Ex Libris. He lives in Oxford.
List of Illustrations
BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
1. The Piazza Rusticucci, detail from View of the Borgo Alessandrino, by G. A.
Dosio (Uffizi, Florence)
2. Michelangelo, by Nicolas de Larmessin (Mary Evans Picture Library)
3. A sixteenth-century copy of the lower portion of one of Michelangelo’s
designs for the tomb of Julius II (Uffizi, Florence)
4. Giuliano da Sangallo, by Piero di Cosimo (AKG, London)
5. Donato Bramante, by Nicolas de Larmessin (Mary Evans Picture Library)
6. Pope Julius II, by Locatelli (Getty Images)
7. The Vatican at the end of the fifteenth century, by Wolgemut, from Hartmann
Schedel’s ‘Liber Chronicarum’ Nuremberg 1493 (Fotomas Index)
8. A plan of the Vatican showing Bramante’s improvements, by Reginald
Piggott
9. A reconstruction of the exterior of the Sistine Chapel, from Ernst Steinmann
Die Sixtinische Kapelle (Tafeln, Erster Teil, Munich, 1901)
10. A reconstruction of the interior of the Sistine Chapel, from Ernst Steinmann
Die Sixtinische Kapelle (Tafeln, Erster Teil, Munich, 1901)
11. The Battle of Cascina after Michelangelo, c.1542 (oil on panel) by Antonio
da Sangallo, the elder (Collection of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall,
Norfolk/Bridgeman Art Library)
12. A sketch for The Battle of Anghiari, by Leonardo da Vinci (Accademia,
Venice)
13. The ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, by Andrea
Mantegna (Scala)
14. A sketch of what the scaffold for the Sistine Chapel might have looked like,
by Michelangelo (Uffizi, Florence)
15. Drawing of a ceiling from Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli, by Giuliano da Sangallo
(Biblioteca Comunale, Siena)
16. A detail from an early design for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo
(British Museum, London)
17. Francesco Granacci, from Vasari’s Le vite de’ più eccelenti pittori, scultori e
architettori, ed. Bettarini and Barocchi, 6 vols (Florence: Sansoni 1966–87)
18. Sketch for the Libyan Sibyl, by Michelangelo (Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924)
19. Girolamo Savonarola, by Esme de Boulonois (Mary Evans Picture Library)
20. A plan of the Vatican Apartments, by Reginald Piggott
21. Self portrait, by Raphael (Scala)
22. The Temptation, by Raphael, from the ceiling of the Stanza della Segnatura
(Vatican)
23. Leda and the Swan, by Raphael, after Leonardo da Vinci (The Royal
Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
24. Apollo and Marsyas, by Sodoma, from the ceiling of the Stanza della
Segnatura
25. King Louis XII of France, engraved by Allais after Chasselat (Mary Evans
Picture Library)
26. Study for the head of the Prophet Zechariah, by Michelangelo (Uffizi,
Florence)
27. Drapery study for the Erythraean Sibyl, by Michelangelo (British Museum,
London)
28. Study for a female figure, by Michelangelo (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)
29. Sketch of a male nude, by Michelangelo (Louvre/©Photo RMN – C. Jean)
30. The Laocoön, engraving by an unknown artist (Mary Evans Picture Library)
31. Manuscript of Michelangelo’s poem to Giovanni da Pistoia (Archivio
Buonarroti, Florence)
32. Desiderius Erasmus, by Andre Thevet (Mary Evans Picture Library)
33. Frontispiece to the German edition of Desiderius Erasmus’s Julius exclusus
(1st Latin edn. 1517), 1523 (Bayerische Staatsbibliotheck, Munich)
34. Cartoon for The School of Athens, by Raphael (Ambrosiana, Milan)
35. Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, by Andre Thevet (Mary Evans Picture
Library)
36. Lodovico Ariosto, engraving by an unknown artist (Mary Evans Picture
Library)
37. Frontispiece to a 1524 edn of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (British Library,
London)
38. Martin Luther, by Theodore De Bry (Mary Evans Picture Library)
39. Study for Adam in The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo (British
Museum, London
40. The pensieroso, Raphael’s addition to The School of Athens (Vatican)
41. The Creation of Adam, by Paolo Uccello, in the Chiostro Verde, Santa Maria
Novella, Florence (Alinari)
42. The Creation of Adam, by Jacopo della Quercia, on the Porta Magna, San
Petronio, Bologna (Alinari)
43. The Battle of Ravenna, by the Maestro della Trappola, 1530 (Gabinetto
Nazionale Delle Stampe, Rome)
44. Booz, by Michelangelo (Vatican)
45. A detail showing the Swiss soldiers from The Mass of Bolsena, by Raphael
(Vatican)
46. Niccolò Machiavelli, engraving by Hinchliff after Brunzoni (Mary Evans
Picture Library)
47. Studies for the crucified Haman, by Michelangelo (British Museum, London)
48. Tomb of Julius II, San Petronio in Vincoli, by Michelangelo (Alinari)
COLOUR PLATES
1. A plan of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Reginald Piggott
2. The Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo (Vatican)
3. The lunette from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo
ROBOAM/ABIAS
(Vatican)
4. The Giving of the Keys to St Peter, by Perugino (Vatican)
5. The lunette from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo (Vatican)
NAASON
6. The lunette and spandrel from the Sistine Chapel
JOSIAS/JECHONIAS/SALATHEIL
ceiling, by Michelangelo (Vatican)
7. The Prophet Jonah, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo
(Vatican)
8. Portrait of Pope Julius II, by Raphael (Scala)
9. The Dispute of the Sacrament, by Raphael (Vatican)
10. The School of Athens, by Raphael (Vatican)
11. The Expulsion of Heliodorus, by Raphael (Vatican)
12. The Mass of Bolsena, by Raphael (Vatican)
13. Triumph of Galatea, Villa Farnesina, by Raphael (Scala)

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