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Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform by Emily A. Fenichel (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009314378

ISBN-139781009314374

eBay Product ID (ePID)23058636957

Product Key Features

Book TitleMichelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorEmily A. Fenichel

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Length10.3 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2022-058966

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal709.2

Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. Public: criticism, penance, and the portrait medal; 2. Public: collaboration and religious art in Rome; 3. Private: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and meditation; 4. Private: the Jesuits, the body, and meditation; 5. Conclusion.

SynopsisThis offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Emily Fenichel argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation., In this volume, Emily A. Fenichel offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Taking the criticism of the Last Judgment as its point of departure, she argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation. Buffeted by critiques of the Last Judgment, which claimed that he valued art over religion, Michelangelo searched for new religious iconographies and techniques both publicly and privately. Fenichel here suggests a new and different understanding of the artist in his late career. In contrast to the received view of Michelangelo as solitary, intractable, and temperamental, she brings a more nuanced characterization of the artist. The late Michelangelo, Fenichel demonstrates, was a man interested in collaboration, penance, meditation, and experimentation, which enabled his transformation into a new type of religious artist for a new era.

LC Classification NumberN6923.B9F39 2023