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Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
A New Interpretation, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 216)
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Edith Balas
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English
Published/Copyright:
1995
About this book
There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo’s complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist’s original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in obscurity, making his images, like the language of Neoplatonic philosophers, intelligible only to an intellectual elite. Assuming the role of the Magus, Michelangelo conceived a cryptic, magical world of potent allegorical images designed not simply or primarily to commemorate the departed Medici but to help achieve elevation for their souls. Illustrations.
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January 1, 1995
eBook ISBN:
9798893981308
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196
eBook ISBN:
9798893981308
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College/higher education;
