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Author Østermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963- author.

Title Sweetness and strength : the reception of Michelangelo in late Victorian England / Lene Østermark-Johansen
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Eighteenth-century overture: an introduction; 1 Michelangelo as text; 1.i Lives, letters and love-poems: the nineteenth-century resurrection of Renaissance texts and manuscripts; 1.ii Petrarchism and Platonism: Michelangelo's poetry in England; 1.iii 'So much meaning into so litle room': Michelangelo as translation; 2 Michelangelo as line; 2.i From private to public: Michelangelo drawings in England; 2.ii The critical response to Michelangelo's drawings in Victorian England
2.iii 'Michelangelo would sniff contemptuously at me, I know': Michelangelo and Burne-Jones3 Michelangelo as the Petrarchan lover; 3.i Sixteenth-century sources on the friendship between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna; 3.ii Poems, portraits and passions: the nineteenth-century romance between Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna; 3.iii Pity, passion and pathos: Michelangelo as the devout Christian; 4 Michelangelo as the Platonic lover; 4.i Sixteenth-century sources for the friendship between Michelangelo and Tommaso de' Cavalieri
4.ii 'The love that dare not speak its name': Michelangelo as patron saint of sexual inversion4.iii From the insanity of genius to the intermediate sex: the case of Michelangelo in some post-Darwinian writings; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Notes Originally published 1998 by Ashgate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed Decmeber 21, 2018)
Subject Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Criticism and interpretation
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Influence
SUBJECT Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 fast
Subject Arts, Victorian -- England -- Italian influences
ART -- History -- General.
Arts, Victorian -- Italian influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429426247
0429426240