Passion, obsession, challenge, research and extreme creativity: this is the story of the forty years the sculptor Michelangelo spent on the execution of the tomb of Pope Julius II and all its corpus of statues. But this is not just about Michelangelo; this is the most elaborate work of his life, planned and realised with strong accuracy. The renovation of the tomb offered the chance of realising an amazing photographic campaign, with shots and images that couldn’t be caught otherwise. This book has been supervised and written in its fundamental contributions by C.L. Frommel, the most eminent academic in this field. The reading is fluid thanks to the narrative, interpretive style of the first papers. The explanation is based on the extraordinary documentary research presented in the appendix of the book, that gives to the whole text a steady theoretical scientific foundation. Doing so, Frommel realised a conclusive volume about Michelangelo and the most elaborate and majestic of his works. The iconographic setting is consists of three different kind of images:
1. Michelangelo’s sketches
2. Top quality unreleased pictures from the photographic campaign, deserving a volume by themself, with shots on the single details of the statues and on the ensemble
3. Reconstruction sketches. All these images are shown in the big plates, while along the text there are smaller images for a comparative purpose