Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

CONTENTS: The Summons; The Conspiracy; The Warrior Pope; Penance; Painting in the Wet; The Design; The Assistants; The House of Buonarroti; The Fountains of the Great Deep; Competition; A Great Quandary; The Flaying of Marsyas; True Colors; He Shall Build the Temple of the Lord; Family Business; Laocoon; The Golden Age; The School of Athens; Forbidden Fruit; The Barbarous Multitudes; Bologna Redux; The World's Game; A New and Wonderful Manner of Painting; The First and Supreme Creator; The Expulsion of Heliodorus; The Monster of Ravenna; Many Strange Forms; The Armor of Faith and the Sword of Light; Il Pensieroso; In Evil Plight; Final Touches; Epilogue: The Language of the Gods; Notes; Bibliography; Index.