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Sweetness and Strength explores the reinvention of Michelangelo in the Victorian era. At the opening of the nineteenth century, Michelangelo's reputation rested on the evidence of contemporary adulation recorded by Vasari and Condivi. Travel, photography, the shift of his drawings into public collections, and, in particular, the publication of his poems in their original form, transformed this situation. The complexity of his work commanded new attention and several biographies were published.
In this original and beautifully illustrated study, Lene Ostermark-Johansen shows how the critical discussion of the artist's genius and work became irretrievably bound up in contemporary debates about art, religion and gender and how the Romantic view of art and criticism as self-expression turned the focus from the work of art to the artist himself such that the two could never again be viewed in isolation.
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- PublisherScolar Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1859284523
- ISBN 13 9781859284520
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England
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Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, VT, 1998
ISBN 10: 1859284523
ISBN 13: 9781859284520
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Hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Brown and illustrated dust jacket, bronze spine; mylar cover. xv; 320 pp. 75 BW, 17 color plates. This book "explored the reinvention of Michelangelo in the Victorian era. In this original and beautifully illustrated study, [the author] shows how the critical discussion of the artist's genius and work became irretrievably bound up in contemporary debates about art, religion and gender and how the Romantic view of art and criticism as self-expression turned the focus from the work of art to the artist himself such that the two could never again be viewed in isolation." -- dj flap. VG/VG. Ex-library with usual marks, but except for a bit of transfer soiling on rear page appears unread. Seller Inventory # 171136
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