Pathfinder:
Restoration
of the Sistine Chapel
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The most important artworks in the chapel are the frescoes by Michelangelo on the ceiling and on the west wall behind the altar. The frescoes on the ceiling, collectively known as the Sistine Ceiling, were commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 and were painted by Michelangelo in the years from 1508 to 1512. They depict incidents and personages from the Old Testament. The "Last Judgment" fresco on the west wall was painted by Michelangelo for Pope Paul III in the period from 1534 to 1541. These two gigantic frescoes are among the greatest achievements of Western painting. A 10-year-long cleaning and restoration of the Sistine Ceiling completed in 1989 removed several centuries' accumulation of dirt, smoke, and varnish. Cleaning and restoration of the "Last Judgment" was completed in 1994. ["Sistine Chapel" Encyclopędia Britannica Online. <http://www.eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=69769&sctn=1> ] |
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De Tolnay, Charles. The final period: Last Judgment,
frescoes of the Pauline Chapel, last Pietąs. Call No.: N
6923 .B9 D395 V.5 1971
De Tolnay, Charles. The Sistine Ceiling. Call No.: N 6923 .B9 D395 V.2 Partridge, Loren W. Michelangelo--the Last Judgment : a Glorious Restoration / texts by Loren Partridge, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gianluigi Colalucci ; photographs by Takashi Okamura ; texts by F. Mancinelli and G.Colalucci translated from the Italian by Lawrence Jenkens. Call No. : ND623.B9 A69 1997a Michelangelo and Raphael with Botticelli, Perugino, Signorelli, Ghirlandaio and Rosselli in the Vatican : the Sistine Chapel, the Pauline Chapel, the Stanzas and the Loggias. Call No.: ND2757.V35 M52 1995 Return to Glory. Videorecording : Michelangelo Revealed / Nippon Television. Call No. : ND623.M6558 R4 1986 [Media Center] The Sistine Chapel : a Glorious Restoration / edited by Pierluigi de Vecchi ... [et al]. Call No. : ND623.B9 C2913 1994 Michelangelo e la Sistina : la tecnica, il restauro, il mito. Call No.: ND623.M6558 M53 1990 The Sistine Chapel : the Art, the History, and the Restoration / text by Carlo Pietrangeli ... [et al.]. Call No. : ND623.M6558 S57 1986 |
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Barnes,
Bernardine Ann. Michelangelo's
Last Judgment: the Renaissance Response. 1998.  Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture. 1996.
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