Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.

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Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.

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Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

by Lisa M. Rafanelli
Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

Michelangelo's Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

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This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000833782
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/30/2022
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 198
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Lisa M. Rafanelli is Professor of Art History at Manhattanville College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.Opening Act: Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà Chapter 2. Canonicity and its Discontents: Artistic Progeny of the Pietà during the Sixteenth Century Chapter 3.Restaging the Pietà in the Late Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Chapter 4. Shifting Perspectives: Michelangelo and the Pietà from the Mid- Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 5. The Pietà on the American Stage: The Twentieth Century Chapter 6. Coda: The Pietà on the Global Stage

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