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Michelangelo and the English Martyrs (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Michelangelo and the English Martyrs (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the
torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the
Charterhouses of London, Axeholme, Beauvale and Sheen during the
reign of Henry VIII. This single-page martyrology provides the
basis for an in-depth exploration of several interconnected
artistic, scientific and scholarly communities active in Rome in
1555 which are identified as having being involved in its
production. Their work and concerns, which reflect their time and
intellectual environment, are deeply embedded in the broadsheet,
especially those occupying the groups and individuals who came to
be known as Spirituali and in particular those associated with
Cardinal Reginald Pole who is shown to have played a key role in
its production. Following an examination of the text and a
discussion of the narrative intentions of its producers a
systematic analysis is made of the images. This reveals that the
structure, content and intention of what, at first sight, seems to
be nothing more than a confessionally charged Catholic image of the
English Carthusian martyrs, typical of the genre of propaganda
produced during the Reformation, is, astonishingly, dominated by
the most celebrated name of the Italian Renaissance, the artist
Michelangelo Buonarotti. Not only are there direct borrowings from
two works by Michelangelo which had just been completed in Rome,
The Conversion of St Paul and The Crucifixion of St Peter in the
Pauline Chapel but many other of his works are deliberately cited
by the broadsheet's producers. Through the use of a variety of
artistic, scientific and historical approaches, the author makes a
compelling case for the reasons for Michelangelo's presence in the
broadsheet and his influence on its design and production. The book
not only demonstrates Michelangelo's close relationship with
notable Catholic reformers, but shows him to have been at the heart
of the English Counter Reformation at its inception. This detailed
analysis of the broadsheet also throws fresh light on the Marian
religious policy in England in 1555, the influence of Spain and the
broader preoccupations of the Counter Reformation papacy, while at
the same time, enriching our understanding of martyrology across
the confessional divide of the Reformation.
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