'Michelangelo in the New Millennium' presents six paired studies in dialogue with each other that offer new ways of looking at Michelangelo’s art as a series of social, creative, and emotional exchanges where artistic intention remains flexible; probe deeper into the artist’s formal borrowing and how it affects meaning regarding his early religious works; and consider the making and significance of his late papal painting projects commissioned by Paul III and Paul IV for chapels at the Vatican Palace.
Author(s): Tamara Smithers (ed.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 254. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 14
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Leiden
Foreword: Why More Michelangelo? / William E. Wallace vii
Acknowledgements / Tamara Smithers xi
List of Illustrations xii
Contributors xvi
Introduction: Michelangelo in the New Millennium / Tamara Smithers 1
Part 1. Artistic Mobility
1. Site-Specificity / Joost Keizer 25
2. Michelangelo’s 'Strozzi Tondo'?: Securing Status with Art / Eric R. Hupe 47
Part 2. Syncretic Seers
3. The 'Pitti Tondo': A 'Sibylline' Madonna / Emily Fenichel 79
4. Christ-Bearers and Seers of the Period 'Ante Legem': On the Male Nudes in Michelangelo’s 'Doni Tondo' and Sistine Ceiling Frescoes / Jonathan Kline 112
Part 3. Papal Patronage: The Pauls
5. Virtuous Prelates, Burdensome Relics and a Sliver of Gold in the 'Last Judgment' / Erin Sutherland Minter 147
6. Michelangelo the 'Lefty': The Cappella Paolina, the Expulsion Drawings, and Marcello Venusti / Margaret Kuntz 179
Coda. Michelangelo’s Suicidal Stone / Tamara Smithers 210
Epilogue. Twenty-first Century Versus Twentieth Century Methodologies / Marcia B. Hall 226
Index 235
