Michelangelo in the New Millennium

Michelangelo 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

Tamara Smithers, Ph.D. (2012), Temple University, is Associate Professor of Art History at Austin Peay State University. She has given numerous talks on Michelangelo and other Italian Renaissance topics at international conferences, universities, and museums and has recently published an essay on Michelangelo’s use of the Giant Order at the Campidoglio in Rome (2013)