# Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-king/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling/9781844139323

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-king/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling/9781844139323.json

![Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling](https://quivercdn.com/covers/pimlico/ross-king/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling_978-18-4413-932-3-9dc5217d.jpg?v=2026-09-19%2003%3A36%3A51)

- Book: [Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-king/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling) ([Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-king/michelangelo-and-the-popes-ceiling.md))
- Authors: [Ross King](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-king)
- Publisher: Pimlico
- ISBN: 978-18-4413-932-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2006-04-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted. Nevertheless, for the next four years he and a hand-picked team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending back-breaking hours on a scaffold fifty feet above the floor. The result was one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. 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.