Michelangelos Vatican Pieta and Its Afterlives

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelös well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

List of contents

Chapter 1.Opening Act: Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà Chapter 2. Canonicity and its Discontents: Artistic Progeny of the Pietà during the Sixteenth Century Chapter 3.Restaging the Pietà in the Late Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Chapter 4. Shifting Perspectives: Michelangelo and the Pietà from the Mid- Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 5. The Pietà on the American Stage: The Twentieth Century Chapter 6. Coda: The Pietà on the Global Stage

About the author

Lisa M. Rafanelli is Professor of Art History at Manhattanville College.

Summary

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo?s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Piet?, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa M. Rafanelli, Lisa M. (Manhattanville College Rafanelli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780367859886
• ISBN: 978-0-367-85988-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, Anthropology, sculpture, Religion: general, Christianity, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Society and culture: general, Archaeological Theory, ART / History / European / Renaissance