Isbn: 9780473457761 - a splendid sin: michelangelo: a renaissance affair (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 336 pages. ex-library, nice clean copyA Splendid Sin' is a love story. It is fiction based on fact.It describes the love of an older man for a younger man and how this love helps create a great w ork of art, 'The Last Judgement' which stands on the altar wall of the Sistine C hapel. It is also the story of genius expressed in artworks breaking boundaries and pushing art into a new form (Mannerism).The forbidden, intense Renaissance s ame-sex romance takes place under the noses of a powerful Vatican elite headed b y the Pope. One man is an adoring muse of the artist and the other, the artist M ichelangelo, can only see the beneficence of God in the beauty of his muse. The concept of active same sex love was condemned by Church teaching, much like toda y.The genius is a forward thinker, he expresses his innermost feelings in the ar t forms he creates, mostly unconsciously, but the artworks reveal his soul. His admiration of the perfect human male form and the expression of his sexuality ca uses him to be conflicted and tortured, yet it is part of his artistic soul in w hich he loses himself to create. He is a lone genius tortured by his own piety a s he breaks rules concerning art and the society he lives in.This creates jealou sy, disturbance, paranoia, vindictiveness and betrayal by those who wish to brin g Michelangelo down. Many of those attached to the Vatican can only see his art as lewd. His relationship with Tommaso de Cavalieri is an expression of all thes e elements and through the progression of this story he changes until his soul i s quietened and he loses himself, not in the love of Tommaso, but in the love fo r his faith. Editorial Reviews About the Author After working for many years a s a registered nurse in New Zealand and England, Alana went to University as a m.…