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Imagine seeing the most famous fresco on the barrel vault of the Sistine Chapel almost as Michelangelo himself would have seen it between 1508 and 1512. A job that, by the way, left him completely exhausted, because it was not for less**. Michelangelo managed to develop the story of Genesis**, commissioned by Pope Julius II, from the end of the altar of the Chapel to the entrance door of the vault, in about 500 m2 and about 20 meters high.
The work with more than 400 life-size figures was very laborious, but he left us for the legacy one of the most complex works in the history of art. Now this great work of the Renaissance can be seen almost through the eyes of Michelangelo thanks to the photographic work of the editorial callaway , which has created a super luxury tome with three volumes that analyze it in detail.
The Sistine Chapel It is valued at 22,000 dollars (about 17,965 euros with shipping included) but it is not surprising knowing the work of the team that has published it. "We are proud to present this extraordinary three-volume set on the Sistine Chapel, the result of a five-year collaboration between Callaway, the Vatican Museum and Italian art publisher Scripta Maneant."
Every inch of the vault has been photographed with ultra high resolution cameras , in addition to the best possible printing in the hands of the Callaway publishing house, to obtain high-resolution images, on a real scale and with a color accuracy of 99.4%, both of the vault and of the frescoes that they painted on the sides of the altar Sandro Botticelli, Perugino and Ghirlandaio , among other Renaissance artists.
“The publication of the Sistine Chapel is a pioneering technological advance . To create the book, a team of photographers took more than 270,000 digital images over the course of 67 consecutive nights, while it was closed to the public. Using 10-meter-high scaffolding and a platform to capture every inch of the chapel, the team used imaging software to seamlessly stitch together the 270,000 individual frames.
The result is so amazing that readers can feel almost closer to the fresco than they would in the Chapel itself. Unfortunately these 822 pages do not have many copies, only 1,999 copies will be released . Hurry if you want one!