Michelangelo's nose : a myth and its maker
While offering both a playful and serious examination of the iconography of the nose from antiquity to the modern period, "Michelangelo's Nose" concentrates on exploring the way in which Michelangelo created himself. Paul Barolsky analyzes in detail Michelangelo's identification with God the Creator, Old Testament prophets and saints, epic poets and philosophers, and caesars and modern monarchs, -- for example, David, Saint Michael, Saint Paul, Saint Peter, Homer, Socrates, Virgil, Dante, and Pope Julius II -- and thus shows how Michelangelo superintended the creation of his own myth. Barolsky presents fresh insight into Vasari's role in the creation of this myth, analyzing the biblical typology and Dantesque allegory of Vasari's book to the self-expressive meaning of Michelangelo's poetry and art. Tracing the myth of Michelangelo into the modern period, Barolsky further demonstrates how it endured in the imagination of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Picasso. -- From publisher's description
Print Book, English, 1990
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xx, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271006956, 9780271016849, 0271006951, 0271016841
20563821
Prelude : Pico, Prometheus, and Proteus
In praise of noses
The tragedy of Michelangelo's nose
David's nose
The Socratic Michelangelo
Aesop's crow
Vestments and virtue
The groves of academe
A Socratic satyr
Michelangelo as grotesque
A Socratic portrait of Michelangelo
Boccaccio's Socratic artist
Lorenzo's satyrs
Lorenzo as silence
The Faun as fiction
The old man as child
Michelangelo as Marsyas
The self as work of art
Michelangelo's supreme scherzo
Montaigne meets Michelangelo
Rabelais's giants and Erasmus's folly
A new Saint Paul
Michelangelo as Saint Paul
Moses as Saint Paul
Michelangelo as Pauline pilgrim
Saint Paul and David
Saint Paul as architect
David's headstone
Michelangelo's sanctity
Art-historical hagiography
The gift of gifts
Donatello's gift
Michelangelo and Vasari in dialogue
Biblical allegory in Vasari's Lives
The rebirth of Nicodemus
Divine personae
Incarnational mysteries
Apocalypse
Church militant and Catholic reform
The example of Dante
Dante the sculptor
Dante's eyes
The "divine comedy" of Michelangelo's Last Judgment
Dante and Saint Peter
Art and purgatory
Giotto and Dante
Dantesque images in Vasari
The language of Dante
Portraits of Dante
Dante's artistic self-consciousness
The bark of Saint Peter
In Dante's bark
Dante and Michelangelo's portrait medal
Michelangelo and Beatrice
Michelangelo and Homer
The wrath of Achilles
The Christian epic
Michelangelo as virgilian victor
Virgil and Michelangelo
A new Augustan age
Virgil and the age of gold
The victor's wrath
Moses and Michelangelo as Julian princes
The principality of art
Michelangelo and Machiavelli
Michelangelo's emblem
The genius of Vasari
Retrospect : "between virtue and vice"
Autobiography and self-creation
Benvenuto Buonarroti
Michelangelo and the formation of the romantic self
Michelangelo's epic art in the romantic imagination
The religion of art
The Satanic angel
Michelangelo the "Übermensch"
Michelangelo's final work
Conclusion : Michelangelo's masterpiece