Michelangelo's Medici Chapel by Edith Balas
There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in obscurity, making his images, like the language of Neoplatonic philosophers, intelligible only to an intellectual elite. Assuming the role of the Magus, Michelangelo conceived a cryptic, magical world of potent allegorical images designed not simply or primarily to commemorate the departed Medici but to help achieve elevation for their souls. Illustrations.-
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EDITH BALAS has been Professor of Art History at Carnegie Mellon University for over thirty years. Her main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. In addition to over two dozen articles in American and European journals, her publications include Brancusi and Romanian Folk Tradition (1987, 2006), Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (1995), Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (1998), The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (2001), The Mother Goddess in the Italian Renaissance (2002), The Early Work of Henry Koerner (2003), Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits (2004), and Brancusi's World (2008). Dr. Balas has curated a number of exhibitions in Pittsburgh in addition to Budapest, Paris and New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780871692160 |
| ISBN 10 | 0871692163 |
| Title | Michelangelo's Medici Chapel |
| Author | Edith Balas |
| Series | Memoirs Of The American Philosophical Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | American Philosophical Society Press |
| Year published | 1995-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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