Michelangelo and Raphael with Botticelli, Perugino, Signorelli, Ghirlandaio and Rosselli in the Vatican. All the Sistine Chapel, the Stanzas and the Loggias.

[Michelangelo] Rossi, Francesco. Michelangelo and Raphael with Botticelli, Perugino, Signorelli, Ghirlandaio and Rosselli in the Vatican. All the Sistine Chapel, the Stanzas and the Loggias. First Edition special edition. Vatican City, Vatican Polyglot Press, 1983. 24.5cm x 31cm. 211 pages including 146 colour plates. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes for example: Sistine Chapel: Decoration of the Walls/ The Ceiling/ The Tapestries/ The Last Judgement/ Raphael Stanzas: Stanza of the Signature/ Stanza of Heliodorus/ Stanza of the Borgo Fire/ Stanza of Constantine/ Raphael Loggias. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the alt..