Michelangelo as Nicodemus : the Florence Pietà

Author

Kristof, Jane

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Sixteenth century journal. 1989, Num. 2, Vol. 20, p. 163-182, 6 ill.

ISSN

0361-0160

Abstract (en)

Michelangelo's association with the Catholic reform movement known as Nicodemism helps to explain his self-portrait as Nicodemus in the Florentine Pietà and may account for his abandonment and partial destruction of the work.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- Italy
• 1500-1600
• Sculpture
• Pietà
• Nicodemism
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Italy
• S. Maria del Fiore (cathedral)||Firenze (ITA)
• Nicodemus
• Iconography
• Christian iconography
• Self-portraits

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- Italie
• 1500-1600
• Sculpture
• Pietà
• Nicodémisme
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Italie
• S. Maria del Fiore (cathédrale)||Firenze (ITA)
• Nicodème
• Iconographie
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Autoportrait

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00449056

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