Michelangelo and the Reform of Art

by Michelangelo Buonarroti and Alexander Nagel

Michelangelo was acutely conscious of living in an age of religious crisis and artistic change, and for him the two issues were related. Michelangelo and the Reform of Art explores Michelangelo's awareness of artistic tradition as a means of understanding his relation to the profound religious uncertainty of the sixteenth century. Concentrating on Michelangelo's lifelong preoccupation with the image of the dead Christ, Alexander Nagel studies the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521662923
• ISBN13: 9780521662925
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"