The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo - Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame-or second life-from their own times through the nineteenth century.

List of contents

1. From making one's mark to artistic apotheosis 2. Antecedents: Artist tombs before Raphael 3. Raphael as artifex divinus: Entombment and disciples 4. Michelangelo's scrittura from beginning to end 5. Sixteenth-century self-made memorials 6. Mourning Michelangelo 7 Brotherhood and burial 8. The longue durée

About the author

Tamara Smithers is Professor of Art History at Austin Peay State University, USA.

Summary

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame—or second life—from their own times through the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Tamara Smithers, Smithers Tamara
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032310480
• ISBN: 978-1-032-31048-0
• No. of pages: 298
• Weight: 752 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art