e fa dolce la morte : love, death, and salvation in Michelangelo's Last Judgment

Author

Hub, Berthold

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Artibus et historiae. 2005, Num. 51, Vol. 26, 103-130, 252, 20 ill. (19 col.)

ISSN

0391-9064

Abstract (en)

Attempts, following a long lineage of scholarly investigation, to identify some of the anonymous yet distinct figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment (Rome, Vatican, Sistine Chapel), here using the artist's poetry written contemporaneously with the fresco's production. Observes that, especially in some 1530s poems dedicated to his Roman nobleman lover Tommaso Cavalieri, Michelangelo links beauty, love, death, transcendence, and salvation. Uses select passages, as well as aspects of his personal life, to interpret personalized eschatological meaning within iconographical elements, such as the alignment of both Christ and (Michelangelo's) beloved in the figure of the Judge, embraces between the blessed, and the much-discussed S. Bartholomew self-portrait. Also considers other popular Renaissance sources for relating love and death, largely from neoplatonic literature.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Italy
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Italy
• Painting
• 1400-1600
• Last Judgment
• Christian iconography
• Scholarship
• Interpretation
• Identification
• Art history
• Poetry
• Artists' writings
• Love
• Death
• Salvation
• Eschatology
• Meaning
• Artistic intention
• Relations
• Sources
• Literature
• Neo-Platonism
• Artistic life
• Self-portraits
• Cavalieri, Tommaso de', ca.1519-1587
• Vaticano, Cappella Sistina||Roma (ITA)
• Nobility

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Italie
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Italie
• Peinture
• 1400-1600
• Jugement dernier
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Erudition
• Interprétation
• Identification
• Histoire de l'art
• Poésie
• Ecrits d'artiste
• Amour
• Mort
• Salut
• Eschatologie
• Signification
• Intention artistique
• Relations
• Sources
• Littérature
• Néoplatonisme
• Vie artistique
• Autoportrait
• Cavalieri, Tommaso de', v.1519-1587
• Vaticano, Cappella Sistina||Roma (ITA)
• Noblesse

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024970

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