Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'

Klappentext This work examines all facets of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'. Zusammenfassung This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Interest in, and understanding of, the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years.

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This work examines all facets of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'.

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This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Interest in, and understanding of, the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years.

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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.