Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling in Around the World in 80 Books

Feb 19, 2015 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel-the-world

This year my goal is to read a book set in each country of the world. I find myself reading books that have been languishing in my physical library (as well as my ebook library) for a long time, which is a good thing. To my delight, I am loving this journey of finding new authors. For me a book is a good one when it points me to other books and more in-depth research. Michaelangelo and Pope's Ceiling is one of them. I had seen the Sistine Chapel, as well as the Pieta years ago during a trip to R ...more

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Jun 17, 2018 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: italy

The story of Michelangelo’s struggle to obey a pope and paint a fresco on a ceiling though he always considered himself a sculptor makes for a dramatic book. The author shares the story sequentially, as Michelangelo slowly makes his way across the ceiling, over a four year period, and intertwines this story with the story of the pope and his desire to keep France out of his realm.

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Feb 21, 2008 Felicia follum rated it liked it

Shelves: forced-upon-me-school

The book is writen in a style that you need to know some of the art history. I read it for a beginning art history class and it was interesting to see the names of pieces we had just studied. There were also references Georgio Vassari's books. If you dont know that he was a biographer of artists you wouldnt know what was going on. I agree that some knoweldge of the time period helps immensely.

I found it interesting that Michelangelo was where the artistic temerament came from and to see his per ...more

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