Michelangelo in the new millennium : : conversations about artistic practice, patronage and Christianity / / Edited by Tamara Smithers.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 254
• TeilnehmendeR: Smithers, Tamara.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History v. 254.; Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction: Michelangelo in the New Millennium
• 1 Site-Specificity / Joost Keizer
• 2 Michelangelo’s Strozzi Tondo?: Securing Status with Art / Eric R. Hupe
• 3 The Pitti Tondo: A “Sibylline” Madonna / Emily Fenichel
• 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
• 5 Virtuous Prelates, Burdensome Relics and a Sliver of Gold in the Last Judgment / Erin Sutherland Minter
• 6 Michelangelo the “Lefty”: The Cappella Paolina, the Expulsion Drawings, and Marcello Venusti / Margaret Kuntz
• Coda Michelangelo’s Suicidal Stone
• Epilogue Twenty-first Century Versus Twentieth Century Methodologies / Marcia B. Hall
• Index.