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Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 216)

By Edith Balas
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By Edith Balas
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There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo’s complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist’s original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in obscurity, making his images, like the language of Neoplatonic philosophers, intelligible only to an intellectual elite. Assuming the role of the Magus, Michelangelo conceived a cryptic, magical wo...

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