Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England

by Lene Ostermark-Johansen and Lene Østermark-Johansen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138387495
• ISBN13: 9781138387492
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages