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High Renaissance Art in St. Peter`s and the Vati – An Interpretive Guide (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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High Renaissance Art in St. Peter`s and the Vati – An Interpretive Guide (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante-together these artists created some
of the most glorious treasures of the Vatican, viewed daily by
thousands of tourists. But how many visitors understand the way
these artworks reflect the passions, dreams, and struggles of the
popes who commissioned them? For anyone making an artistic
pilgrimage to the High Renaissance splendors of the Vatican, George
L. Hersey's book is the ideal guide. Before starting the tour of
individual works, Hersey describes how the treacherously shifting
political and religious alliances of sixteenth-century Italy,
France, and Spain played themselves out in the Eternal City. He
offers vivid accounts of the lives and personalities of four popes,
each a great patron of art and architecture: Julius II, Leo X,
Clement VII, and Paul III. He also tells of the complicated
rebuilding and expanding of St. Peter's, a project in which
Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo all took part. Having set the
historical scene, Hersey then explores the Vatican's magnificent
Renaissance art and architecture. In separate chapters, organized
spatially, he leads the reader through the Cortile del Belvedere
and Vatican Museums, with their impressive holdings of statuary and
paintings; the richly decorated Stanze and Logge of Raphael; and
Michelangelo's Last Judgment and newly cleaned Sistine Chapel
ceiling. A fascinating final chapter entitled "The Tragedy of the
Tomb" recounts the vicissitudes of Michelangelo's projected funeral
monument to Julius II. Hersey is never content to simply identify
the subject of a painting or sculpture. He gives us the story
behind the works, telling us what their particular themes signified
at the time for the artist, the papacy, and the Church. He also
indicates how the art was received by contemporaries and viewed by
later generations. Generously illustrated and complete with a
useful chronology, High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the
Vatican is a valuable reference for any traveler to Rome or lover
of Italian art who has yearned for a single-volume work more
informative and stimulating than ordinary guidebooks. At the same
time, Hersey's many anecdotes and intriguing comparisons with works
outside the Vatican will provide new insights even for specialists.
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