Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'

ISBN-13: 9780521780025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 210 str.

Marcia Hall

Opis

This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its wildly mixed reception by contemporaries. The Last Judgment was created at a moment of crisis when the spirit of Renaissance humanism was recoiling from the sense of a new threat within the church, as defections of the faithful to the new Protestant sects multiplied across Europe. Seen in this context, the examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art.

Recenzje

"an excellent review of recent scholarship for advanced students" - Martha Dunkelman

Spis treści

Introduction Marcia Hall; 1. Nothing else happening: Michelangelo between Rome and Florence William Wallace; 2. The historical/religious circumstances of the Last Judgment Thomas Mayer; 3. Michelangelo's Last Judgment as the resurrection of the body: the hidden clue Marcia Hall; 4. Painting, criticism, and Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the age of the counter reformation Melinda Schlitt; 5. A ceremonial ensemble: Michelangelo's Last Judgment and the Cappella Paolina frescoes Margaret A. Kuntz.