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Hundreds of illustrations, many in full color, highlight a detailed look at the immense restoration work being done on Michelangelo's masterpiece, showing how the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes has revealed vivid colors that for years have been hidden.
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Nine years in duration, the elaborate restoration of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes was one of the major events in recent art history. Not executed without controversy, the restoration renewed the vivid colors of Michelangelo's greatest work--in fact, caused a reevaluation in the minds of art historians of the master's use of color. (The controversy centered on concern that restorers had taken off too much of the accumulated overlay of the ages and that maybe Michelangelo had himself surfaced the frescoes with a layering of varnish meant to subdue the vibrant coloring.) Approximately 300 photographs of the restored frescoes are brilliantly presented here, a visual enticement to enjoy the original color as well as the form and the composition of these spectacular works. Accompanying the perfect reproductions are nine essays by specialists discussing such topics as Michelangelo's preparatory drawings for the figures in the frescoes, the plaster and pigment techniques he employed, the issue of whether he used assistants or not, and his use of color. This magnificent, celebratory book--of both the frescoes and their restoration--belongs in every active art-history collection. Brad Hooper
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- PublisherAbradale Press Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0810938405
- ISBN 13 9780810938403
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
- EditorPietrangeli Carlo
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