Michelangelo and the Reform of Art

Abstract

"Concentrating on Michelangelo's lifelong preoccupation with the image of the dead Christ, Alexander Nagel studies the artist's associations with reform-minded circles in early sixteenth-century Italy and his sustained concern over the fate of religious art in his own day. A reassessment of Michelangelo's work, this revisionist study sheds new light on High Renaissance and Mannerist art as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.