{"product_id":"michelangelos-medici-chapel-edith-balas-9780871692160","title":"Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 216)","description":"There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in obscurity, making his images, like the language of Neoplatonic philosophers, intelligible only to an intellectual elite. Assuming the role of the Magus, Michelangelo conceived a cryptic, magical world of potent allegorical images designed not simply or primarily to commemorate the departed Medici but to help achieve elevation for their souls. Illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith Balas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871692163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871692160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Philosophical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Edith Balas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435710394623,"sku":"9780871692160","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c5bce03-3e8f-47ff-b8a6-d9ebc723792d.jpg?v=1777152188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/michelangelos-medici-chapel-edith-balas-9780871692160","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}