Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling

by King, Ross

• ISBN13: 9780786253302
• ISBN10: 0786253304
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
The Summons	11	(16)
The Conspiracy	27	(25)
The Warrior Pope	52	(16)
Penance	68	(10)
Painting in the Wet	78	(19)
The Design	97	(15)
The Assistants	112	(12)
The House of Buonarroti	124	(12)
The Fountains of the Great Deep	136	(20)
Competition	156	(13)
A Great Quandary	169	(15)
The Flaying of Marsyas	184	(14)
True Colors	198	(21)
He Shall Build the Temple of the Lord	219	(16)
Family Business	235	(18)
Laocoon	253	(15)
The Golden Age	268	(26)
The School of Athens	294	(12)
Forbidden Fruit	306	(18)
The Barbarous Multitudes	324	(14)
Bologna Redux	338	(14)
The World's Game	352	(17)
A New and Wonderful Manner of Painting	369	(10)
The First and Supreme Creator	379	(16)
The Expulsion of Heliodorus	395	(10)
The Monster of Ravenna	405	(14)
Many Strange Forms	419	(9)
The Armor of Faith and the Sword of Light	428	(11)
Il Pensieroso	439	(14)
In Evil Plight	453	(18)
Final Touches	471	(13)
Epilogue: The Language of the Gods	484	(18)
Notes	502	(66)
Bibliography	568