Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform

Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform by Emily A Fenichel

In this volume, Emily A. Fenichel offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Taking the criticism of the Last Judgment as its point of departure, she argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation. Buffeted by critiques of the Last Judgment, which claimed that he valued art over religion, Michelangelo searched for new religious iconographies and techniques both publicly and privately. Fenichel here suggests a new and different understanding of the artist in his late career. In contrast to the received view of Michelangelo as solitary, intractable, and temperamental, she brings a more nuanced characterization of the artist. The late Michelangelo, Fenichel demonstrates, was a man interested in collaboration, penance, meditation, and experimentation, which enabled his transformation into a new type of religious artist for a new era.

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

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ISBN 13	9781009314374
ISBN 10	1009314378
Title	Michelangelo's Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform
Author	Emily A Fenichel
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2023-07-20
Number of pages	300
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