Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'
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Part of Masterpieces of Western Painting
- Editor: Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia
- Date Published: March 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521783682
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Michelangelo's Last Judgment was the most criticized and discussed painting of the sixteenth century. The subject of the Last Judgment has been a barometer of cultural mood throughout history. It can be interpreted, as Michelangelo did, as the moment when mortals attain immortal bliss or, in more unsettled times, as the terrifying moment when we face the justice of the Lord and are found wanting. The painting must hold in tension admonition and celebration. Michelangelo created his fresco in the final flowering of Renaissance humanism. Four years after its unveiling, the Council of Trent began meeting and the Counter-Reformation was under way. Caught on the cusp of a major shift of values, Michelangelo and his fresco were praised by lovers of art and condemned by conservative churchmen who sought a tool with which to exhort the wavering faithful, tempted to defect to Protestantism. This book explores the context, both historical and biographical, in which the fresco was created and the debates about the style and function of religious art that it generated.
Read more- Detailed images of this huge and well known painting
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- Date Published: March 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521783682
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.29kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus. 2 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Michelangelo and the Age of Mannerism
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