O sepulcro de Julio II, de Michelangelo : o movimento reformador italiano e a definição iconográfica do monumento em San Pietro in Vincoli / The Tomb of Jules II, by Michelangelo : the Italian reformation movement and the iconographic definition of the monument in San Pietro in Vincoli

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

22/09/2011

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The sepulcher of the pope Jules II was finished by Michelangelo in 1545 at the Church of Saint Peter in Chains, in Rome. The final project counted on 7 sculptures: 4 of them by Michelangelo?s own hands and 3 sculptures made by his assistents. Some Scholars have considered that him assembled sculptures made in different moments of his life to be free of an order that lasted 40 years. The recent approaches on the meaning of the sculptures of Activ Life and Contemplative Life point to the existence of an iconographic programme previously defined by the master. Antonio Forcellino says Michelangelo was inspired by the content of the little book Il Beneficio di Cristo to idealize these sculptures. Enrico Guidoni tells that the master had based on the first letters of the Vittoria Colonna and Faustina Mancini?s names to creat them. To Marina Gandini these sculptures are the two forms of the lives of Moses and for Maria Forcellino Michelangelo took Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine as models to make them. When he worked on these sculptures Michelangelo had narrow ties of friendship with some persons of the italian reformed movement and communicated some doctrinaire ideals of the religious corrents of the valdesiani and the "spirituali" of the Circle of Viterbo. By introducing that two alegories in that sepulchral monument the artist has immortalized on that marbles the relationship between faith and good works - symbolizations of that two forms of life in the Cristian world -, concerning the justification question, like this question was seen by those reformers, that is to say, that only the faith had the merit to justify the sinner before God, being the good works operated by the faith. In creating them the master did not base in any specific written, but in both his own reflections and the talks he had with the interlocuters of those religious groups on the justification question

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italian justification religião - história justificação escultura italiana saint peter in chains religion sculpture

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