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Michelangelo's painting : selected essays / Leo Steinberg ; edited by Sheila Schwartz.

By: Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011 [author.]
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Sheila [editor.]
Language: English Series: Steinberg, Leo, Essays: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiv, 382 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) ; 29 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226482262 Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation | Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) | Cappella Paolina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) | Painting, Renaissance -- Italy | Painting, Italian -- 16th century | Christian art and symbolism -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments / Sheila Schwartz -- Introduction / Alexander Nagel -- Disconnections: the Doni Madonna and Leonardo's St. Anne -- The Sistine Deluge -- Who's who in The creation of Adam -- All about Eve -- A new Michelangelo -- Why Michelangelo huddled those ancestors under that ceiling -- The Last Judgment as merciful heresy -- A corner of The Last Judgment -- The Last Judgment and environs -- The line of fate in Michelangelo's painting -- Michelangelo's last paintings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and acknowledgments / Sheila Schwartz -- Introduction / Alexander Nagel -- Disconnections: the Doni Madonna and Leonardo's St. Anne -- The Sistine Deluge -- Who's who in The creation of Adam -- All about Eve -- A new Michelangelo -- Why Michelangelo huddled those ancestors under that ceiling -- The Last Judgment as merciful heresy -- A corner of The Last Judgment -- The Last Judgment and environs -- The line of fate in Michelangelo's painting -- Michelangelo's last paintings.