Contents

Preface

1. The Wennerberg experience

2. Practices and theories of siting

3. Early works

4. The Pietà in Rome

5. The Sistine Chapel ceiling

6. Portraits of the artist

7. The Medici Chapel

8. The tomb of Pope Julius II

9. The nature of sculpture

10. The cave of Vulcan

11. David

12. Via negativa

13. The late pietàs

14. Visible and non-visible bodies

15. The Last Judgement

16. Sistine Chapel installations

17. Coda

Notes

Appendix

Illustrations

References