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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Very large book 35×41. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> During the Chapel’s construction between 1475- 81 a large rectangular hall covered by a low-lying vault Sixtus IV would never have imagined that it would house some of the most impressive expressions of Renaissance art and become known all around the world as the place where the Conclave and other official Papal ceremonies are held not to mention being decorated with one of the most famous pieces of art in the western art world. Having commissioned an elegant marble transenna which divides the room into two parts and the choir’s balustrade he was already beginning to show himself as being particularly sensitive to art. This sensitivity drove him to call upon the likes of some of the most famous artists of his time such as – Sandro Botticelli Luca Signorelli Piero di Cosimo Perugino Domenico Ghirlandaio and Pinturicchio – who between 1481 and 1483 painted the frescoes on the lateral walls and in front of the alter. In 1506 Julius II took over the project to decorate the chapel and put his trust in Michelangelo who berween 1508 and 1512 painted the vault with frescoes and during the papacy of Paul III he also frescoed the wall at the end of the hall. A huge pictorial circle covers the entire surface of the vault with paintings of nine Genesis stories in its centre. A grandiose and dynamic scene within an unlimited space occupies the end wall: this is where Michelangelo in 1536- 41 painted his fresco of the magnificent magnificent but terrifying The Last Judgement exceeding the iconographic ideals and perspective relationships of Renaissance art. (OS)