Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 163
, representingHebrew and pagan inspiration according to an Italianartistic method which conceived of inspired thought ascommon to the classic and the Jewish literature. The panels of the main ceiling, devoted to the Story ofGenesis, are alternately wide and narrow. At the anglesthus formed between… … Fig. 88.—The Sistine Chapel. Vatican Palace. Michael Angelo Buonarroti. 155 tent, are the most daring and successful effort of archi-tectural decoration ever undertaken by man. Twenty-two years after the completion of the ceilingfrescoes (finished 1512) the Last Judgment on the rearwall of the…
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