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Sweetness and Strength - The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (Hardcover)
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Sweetness and Strength - The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1998, this volume explores the reinvention of
Michelangelo in the Victorian era. At the opening of the nineteenth
century, Michelangelo's reputation rested on the evidence of
contemporary adulation recorded by Vasari and Condivi. Travel,
photography, the shift of his drawings into public collections,
and, in particular, the publication of his poems in their original
form, transformed this situation. The complexity of his work
commanded new attention and several biographies were published. As
public curiosity and knowledge of the artist increased, so various
groups began to ally themselves to aspects of Michelangelo's
persona. His Renaissance reputation as a towering genius, a man of
great spiritual courage, who had journeyed through and for his art
to the depths of despair, was important to the Pre-Raphaelites and
other artists. His love for his own 'Dark Lady', Vittoria Colonna,
aroused excited speculation among High Church advocates, who
celebrated his friendship with the deeply religious woman-poet; and
the emerging awareness that some half of his love poetry was
dedicated to a younger man, Tommaso de' Cavalieri, was of intense
interest to the aestheticists, among them Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater
and J.A. Symonds, who sought heroic figures from societies where
masculinity was less rigorously defined. In this original and
beautifully illustrated study, Lene Ostermark-Johansen shows how
the critical discussion of the artist's genius and work became
irretrievably bound up in contemporary debates about art, religion
and gender and how the Romantic view of art and criticism as
self-expression turned the focus from the work of art to the artist
himself such that the two could never again be viewed in isolation.
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