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Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (Hardcover, New)
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Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' (Hardcover, New)
Series: Masterpieces of Western Painting
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Michelangelo's Last Judgment was the most criticized and discussed
painting of the sixteenth century. The subject of the Last Judgment
has been a barometer of cultural mood throughout history. It can be
interpreted, as Michelangelo did, as the moment when mortals attain
immortal bliss or, in more unsettled times, as the terrifying
moment when we face the justice of the Lord and are found wanting.
The painting must hold in tension admonition and celebration.
Michelangelo created his fresco in the final flowering of
Renaissance humanism. Four years after its unveiling, the Council
of Trent began meeting and the Counter-Reformation was under way.
Caught on the cusp of a major shift of values, Michelangelo and his
fresco were praised by lovers of art and condemned by conservative
churchmen who sought a tool with which to exhort the wavering
faithful, tempted to defect to Protestantism. This book explores
the context, both historical and biographical, in which the fresco
was created and the debates about the style and function of
religious art that it generated.
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