Sweetness and Strength

Taylor & Francis

Sweetness and StrengthThe Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England\nAuthor(s): Lene stermark-Johansen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138387492, 978-1138387492\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1998, this volume explores the reinvention of Michelangelo in the Victorian era. At the opening of the nineteenth century, Michelangelos reputation rested on the evidence of contemporary adulation recorded by Vasari and Condivi. Travel, photography, the shift of his drawings into public collections, and, in particular, the publication of his poems in their original form, transformed this situation. The complexity of his work commanded new attention and several biographies were published.\n\nAs public curiosity and knowledge of the artist increased, so various groups began to ally themselves to aspects of Michelangelos persona. His Renaissance reputation as a towering genius, a man of great spiritual courage, who h.