Michelangelo in the New Millennium

Tamara Smithers, Ph.D. (2012), Temple University, is Associate Professor of Art History at Austin Peay State University. She has given numerous talks on Michelangelo and other Italian Renaissance topics at international conferences, universities, and museums and has recently published an essay on Michelangelo’s use of the Giant Order at the Campidoglio in Rome (2013)

• Foreword: Why More Michelangelo? William E. WallaceAcknowledgementsIllustrationsContributorsAbstractsIntroduction: Michelangelo in the New Millennium Tamara SmithersPart 1: Artistic Mobility Chapter 1: Site-SpecificityJoost KeizerChapter 2: Michelangelo’s Strozzi Tondo?: Securing Status with Art Eric R. HupePart 2: Syncretic SeersChapter 3: The Pitti Tondo: A “Sibylline” Madonna Emily FenichelChapter 4: Christ-Bearers and Seers of the Period Ante Legem: On the Male Nudes in Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo and Sistine Ceiling FrescoesJonathan KlinePart 3: Papal Patronage: The Pauls Chapter 5: Virtuous Prelates, Burdensome Relics and a Sliver of Gold in the Last Judgment Erin Sutherland MinterChapter 6: Michelangelo the “Lefty”: The Cappella Paolina, the Expulsion Drawings, and Marcello Venusti Margaret KuntzCoda: Michelangelo’s Suicidal Stone Tamara SmithersEpilogue: Twenty-first Century Versus Twentieth Century Methodologies Marcia B. HallIndex