Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England
Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Brown and illustrated dust jacket, bronze spine; mylar cover. xv; 320 pp. 75 BW, 17 color plates. VG/VG. Ex-library with usual marks, but except for a bit of transfer soiling on rear page appears unread. Item #171136
ISBN: 9781859284520
This book "explored the reinvention of Michelangelo in the Victorian era... In this original and beautifully illustrated study, [the author] shows how the critical discussion of the artist's genius and work became irretrievably bound up in contemporary debates about art, religion and gender and how the Romantic view of art and criticism as self-expression turned the focus from the work of art to the artist himself such that the two could never again be viewed in isolation." -- dj flap.
OCLC: 39477704
Price: $120.00