By Ambra Moroncini
Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality in the framework of the non secular Zeitgeist of his period, this examine investigates his poetic creation to shed new mild at the artist’s non secular ideals and designated language of paintings. writer Ambra Moroncini appears at first at Michelangelo the poet and proposes a thought-provoking studying of Michelangelo’s so much debatable inventive creation among 1536 and c.1550: The final Judgment, his devotional drawings made for Vittoria Colonna, and his final frescoes for the Pauline Chapel. utilizing theological and literary analyses which draw upon reformist and Protestant scriptural writings, in addition to on Michelangelo’s personal rime spirituali and Vittoria Colonna’s religious lyrics, Moroncini proposes a compelling argument for the impression that the Reformation had on one of many maximum minds of the Italian Renaissance. It brings to mild how, within the moment region of the 16th century in Italy, Michelangelo’s poetry and aesthetic perception have been strongly encouraged via the revived theologia crucis of evangelical spirituality, instead of by means of the theologia gloriae of Catholic teaching.
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