prolific critic

and David Saunders

Senior Conservator

How does this scholarship bear on the understanding of bronzes within the wider history of ancient art

including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes

The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome MD2021 prolific criticUlrich Pfisterer Translated by David Dollenmayer The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to decorate the chapel between 1481 and 1541, and with each new addition, fundamental themes found increasingly concrete expression. One overarching theme