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Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change

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Naples was by far the largest urban center on the Italian peninsula during the early modern period, and in the years covered by this book, from the early 1300s to the early 1600s, its inhabitants witnessed vast programs of building and decoration spurred by the cultural needs of royal, ecclesiastical, and baronial elites. Yet the city's many beautiful churches and palaces, stone sculptures, fresco cycles, and altarpieces have not received the ...

This work examines all facets of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment'.

This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. It was created at a moment of crisis when the spirit of Renaissance humanism was giving way to a new sense of threat within the church as defections of the faithful to the new Protestant sects multiplied across Europe. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Our interest in, and u...