Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

ISBN-13: 9780367881429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Ambra Moroncini

Opis

Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality in the frame of the religious Zeitgeist of his era this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Ambra Moroncini proposes a thought-provoking argument which reveals how in the second quarter of the sixteenth century

Spis treści

List of figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction   MATTEO RESIDORI

1 ‘Men must be changed by religion, not religion by men’: Religious culture and spirituality in early modern Italy

2 Vittoria Colonna: Matriarch of Italian Petrarchism and Christiancilla of the Italian Renaissance

3 Michelangelo’s poetry: A religious journey from Neo-Platonism to the credo in sola fide

4 Michelangelo’s poems and drawings for Vittoria Colonna: A sentiment of beauty and equally infinite grace

5 Poetry and theology in Michelangelo’s last frescoes

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Ambra Moroncini is Tutorial Fellow and Italian Convenor at the University of Sussex, UK.