Drawing Christ’s Blood: Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and the Aesthetics of Reform*
| Autor: | Una Roman D’Elia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Literature
History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Poetry business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Art history 06 humanities and the arts Art 060401 art practice history & theory 060202 literary studies 0602 languages and literature Relation (history of concept) business 0604 arts media_common |
| Zdroj: | Renaissance Quarterly. 59:90-129 |
| ISSN: | 1935-0236 0034-4338 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/ren.2008.0151 |
| Popis: | This article discusses Michelangelo’s drawings for Vittoria Colonna in relation to poetry and prose by Michelangelo, Colonna, and their circle. It focuses on the intersection between debates about Church reform and the polemic aboutdisegno(drawing or design) andcolore(color or finish). Vittoria Colonna used the distinction betweendisegnoandcolorerepeatedly in her spiritual poetry. In these and other writings, reform-minded thinkers did not offer consistent aesthetic and theological positions, but rather consciously articulated contradictions. Likewise, Michelangelo’s drawings for Vittoria Colonna display a strategy of deliberate paradox, in that they are highly colored black-and-white drawings of a tearless tearfulness and a bloodless bloodiness. |
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