Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism
Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy
- Author: Sarah Rolfe Prodan, University of Toronto
- Date Published: June 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107043763
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In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.
Read more- A broad and sustained investigation of Michelangelo's theology that complements existing, more focused historical, art historical, or literary studies
- Goes beyond current studies on Michelangelo and reform to consider the role of the Holy Spirit in both personal piety and collective religious life
- Distinguishes itself by approaching the character of Michelangelo's religious art through an examination of his poetry
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'Sarah Prodan succeeds with exemplary thoroughness, sensitivity, and balance in laying out the imbricated components of Michelangelo's poetic imaginary, from the canonical - Dante, Petrarch, Ficinian Neoplatonism - to the familiar but less exhaustively explored, particularly St Augustine, the Catholic Reformation, and the realm of popular piety, such as sung laude (which Michelangelo would have heard in the milieu of Lorenzo de' Medici, himself an author in this genre) … this volume offers the most comprehensive and integrated discussion of Michelangelo's spiritual poetry since Robert Clements's magisterial The Poetry of Michelangelo (1965).' James M. Saslow, Renaissance and Reformation
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- Date Published: June 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107043763
- length: 279 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- contains: 16 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Michelangelo and Renaissance Augustinianism:
1. 'The sea, the mountain, and the fire with the sword': an Augustinian pilgrimage?
2. 'The sea': the vicissitudes of inordinate love, or hell as habit
3. 'The mountain': acedia and the mind's presumption to ascend
4. 'The fire with the sword': grace and divine presence
Conclusion
Part II. Michelangelo and Viterban Spirituality:
5. The benefit of Christ
6. The action of the spirit
7. Michelangelo's Viterban poetics
8. Aesthetics, reform, and Viterban sociability
Conclusion.
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