Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'

This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its wildly mixed reception by contemporaries. The Last Judgment was created at a moment of crisis when the spirit of Renaissance humanism was recoiling from the sense of a new threat within the church, as defections of the faithful to the new Protestant sects multiplied across Europe. Seen in this context, the examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art.

Author: Marcia B. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/27/2004
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.20w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521780025