Emily A. Fenichel (Florida Atlantic University)

Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 261mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781009314374
• ISBN-10: 1009314378
• Artikelnr.: 67516627

Autorenporträt

Emily Fenichel is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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.