Michelangelo's Puzzle

by Rebecca Jelbert

Overview

Michelangelo's Puzzle: Forgery, Star Maps, and the Sistine Chapel will be popular with readers who are interested art crime, art history, astronomy, and puzzles. Michelangelo's Puzzle expands on Rebecca's article published in Journal of Art Crime (2019), in which she argued that the Vatican's Laocoön Group was created by Michelangelo as a forged antiquity. Drawing on the traditional link between Laocoön and the constellation of Ophiuchus, Michelangelo was able to depict the famous sculpture within the context of a hidden star map on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The foreword has been written by Noah Charney, founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA). This book is unique as it has been written by a professional artist who combines creative insight with rigorous research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765158456
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/07/2025
Series:	Association for Research into Crimes Against Art
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Rebecca Jelbert is a published author, professional painter, and doctoral researcher. She has had five articles published in academic, peer-reviewed journals and is currently studying for a PhD in Art History. Her paintings have been exhibited in venues such as the Mall Galleries, Christie's and Bonhams, and her illustrations have appeared in print and on BBC TV. Rebecca's art history articles have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including The Burlington Magazine and Dante Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Rebecca Jelbert is a published author, professional painter, and doctoral researcher. She has had five articles published in academic, peer-reviewed journals and is currently studying for a PhD in Art History at De Montfort University. Her paintings have been exhibited in venues such as the Mall Galleries, Christie's, and Bonham's; and her illustrations have appeared in print and on BBC TV. Rebecca's art history articles have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including The Burlington Magazine and Dante Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Noah Charney

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Laocoön and his Sons (the Laocoön Group)

Chapter 1. Did Michelangelo Forge the Laocoön Group?

Part II. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Chapter 2. Michelangelo's Secret Star Map

Chapter 3. The Solving of an Ancient, Celestial Puzzle

Chapter 4. Giotto, Dante and Leonardo, and the Passing on of Ideas

Part III. The Last Judgment

Chapter 5. The Constellations of the Human Face

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author