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The last judgment : Michelangelo and the death of the Renaissance
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An analysis of the famous fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel evaluates it as a lens by which to view the end of the Renaissance, arguing that Michelangelo's imagery and composition refl...
An analysis of the famous fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel evaluates it as a lens by which to view the end of the Renaissance, arguing that Michelangelo's imagery and composition reflect period religious and political upheavals.
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- Creator
- James A. Connor
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- English
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- First edition
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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- xii, 233 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0230605737, 9780230605732
- OCLC
- ocn401794562
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-213) and index.
- Prologue: standing in the Sistine -- Introduction: the dying Pope -- The great commission -- Clement's brainstorm -- Pope Julius's tomb -- The altar wall -- Colors -- The children of Savonarola -- Vittoria Colonna -- Sol Invictus -- Saints, martyrs, and angels -- The outer orbit: the naked and the dead -- The damned -- The censorship of the end of the world -- The last days of Michelangelo Buonarroti