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Book SynopsisMichelangelo in the New Millennium presents six paired studies in dialogue with each other that offer new ways of looking at Michelangelo’s art as a series of social, creative, and emotional exchanges where artistic intention remains flexible; probe deeper into the artist’s formal borrowing and how it affects meaning regarding his early religious works; and consider the making and significance of his late papal painting projects commissioned by Paul III and Paul IV for chapels at the Vatican Palace. Contributors are: William E. Wallace, Joost Keizer, Eric R. Hupe, Emily Fenichel, Jonathan Kline, Erin Sutherland Minter, Margaret Kuntz, Tamara Smithers and Marcia B. Hall
Table of ContentsForeword: Why More Michelangelo? William E. Wallace Acknowledgements Illustrations Contributors Abstracts Introduction: Michelangelo in the New Millennium Tamara Smithers Part 1: Artistic Mobility Chapter 1: Site-Specificity Joost Keizer Chapter 2: Michelangelo’s Strozzi Tondo?: Securing Status with Art Eric R. Hupe Part 2: Syncretic Seers Chapter 3: The Pitti Tondo: A “Sibylline” Madonna Emily Fenichel Chapter 4: Christ-Bearers and Seers of the Period Ante Legem: On the Male Nudes in Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo and Sistine Ceiling Frescoes Jonathan Kline Part 3: Papal Patronage: The Pauls Chapter 5: Virtuous Prelates, Burdensome Relics and a Sliver of Gold in the Last Judgment Erin Sutherland Minter Chapter 6: Michelangelo the “Lefty”: The Cappella Paolina, the Expulsion Drawings, and Marcello Venusti Margaret Kuntz Coda: Michelangelo’s Suicidal Stone Tamara Smithers Epilogue: Twenty-first Century Versus Twentieth Century Methodologies Marcia B. Hall Index
