By Asher Biemann

ISBN-10: 0804768811

ISBN-13: 9780804768818

Dreaming of Michelangelo is the 1st book-length learn to discover the highbrow and cultural affinities among glossy Judaism and the existence and paintings of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals stumbled on themselves within the photo of Michelangelo as an "unrequited lover" whose paintings expressed loneliness and a eager for humanity's reaction. the fashionable Jewish mind's eye therefore grew to become consciously idolatrous. Writers dropped at life—literally—Michelangelo's sculptures, seeing in them their very own worldly and emotional struggles. The Moses statue specifically turned an archetype of Jewish liberation politics in addition to a vital concentration of Jewish aesthetics. And such affinities prolonged past sculpture: Jewish viewers to the Sistine Chapel reinterpreted the ceiling as a manifesto of prophetic socialism, without its Christian components. in keeping with Biemann, the phenomenon of Jewish self-recognition in Michelangelo's paintings provided an alternative choice to the failed grants of the German enlightenment. via this unforeseen discovery, he rethinks German Jewish background and its connections to Italy, the Mediterranean, and the paintings of the Renaissance.

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