Volume 23, Number 21 & 22 · January 20, 1977
Talking of Michelangelo
By Ernst Gombrich
Michelangelo's Last Paintings: The Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace
by Leo Steinberg
Oxford University Press, 64 pp., $45.00
When the International Historical Congress met in Rome in 1955, members assembled in the Vatican to listen to an address in Latin by the Pope, after which they were accorded the rare privilege of entering the Paoline Chapel with the frescoes which are the subject of Professor Steinberg's book. I well remember an eminent historian seeking me out in some excitement and asking me incredulously: 'Are these really by Michelangelo?' They are, and one can only hope that this welcome publication will spread the news outside the narrow circle of specialists.
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