Michelangelo''s ''Last Judgment''

Klappentext This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. It was created at a moment of crisis when the spirit of Renaissance humanism was giving way to a new sense of threat within the church as defections of the faithful to the new Protestant sects multiplied across Europe. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Our interest in, and understanding of, the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years. Zusammenfassung This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians! historians of religion and of art. Interest in! and understanding of! the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Marcia B. Hall, Marcia B. (Temple University Hall
• Assisted by: Marcia Hall (Editor), Marcia B. Hall (Editor), Marcia B. (Temple University Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2004
• EAN: 9780521783682
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78368-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Masterpieces of Western Painting; Masterpieces of Western Painti; Masterpieces of Western Painti; Masterpieces of Western Painting
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history