Michelangelo''s Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia, 2013, under the title: Michelangelo and Marian theology.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Emily A Fenichel, Emily A. Fenichel, Emily A. (Florida Atlantic University) Fenichel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009314374
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931437-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; European History, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, sculpture, Italy, Painting & paintings, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, European history: Reformation, European history: Renaissance, Nudes depicted in art, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, Central Italy, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents, Murals and wall paintings