Class dates: Tuesdays, March 24, 31, April 7, 14, 21 (5 weeks)

Class time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Location: Assumption, Kennedy 119

A brief course on the work of Michelangelo. Since the course is brief, it will focus only on those works produced by the artist for Florence while he was there, and exceptionally on some works by him that are in Florence museums today.

Michelangelo loved his native city and, like Dante, was proud of being “ fiorentino .” The course will show how a number of his works reflect that civic pride. That being said, he spent the last thirty years of his life in Rome and died there. No one city ever became the central focus of his art. As Florentine (or as “expatriate” in Rome) as he was, he was a man for all times and places and people.

The course, therefore, will not focus on his life or his beloved Florence (though it will include historical information on both), but on his work and its significance for us.

Optional Reading: Michelangelo—The Artist, the Man, and his Times ; William Wallace (N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Instructor: Fr. Richard Lamoureaux is a retired Assumption University faculty member from the Department of Art & Music. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from New York University, with a focus on 15 ^th century Italian Renaissance Art and on architectural history. He is currently immersed in Michelangelo studies.