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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture on behalf of Marjorie Greene
Sent: Sun 6/19/2011 15:11
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Symbol of Good Works
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Meg and John,
Thank you both for your replies.
I did some investigation of Forcellini and he is apparently a reputable scholar who knows whereof he speaks. I intend to get his book, unfortunately not available on Kindle, so I may have some answers to some of my own questions.
Trying here to reconstruct a program I saw days ago:
the statue that was changed was Moses himself - his face was turned away from the altar (acc. to Forc. this was to denigrate or minimize the importance of the priest in worship in general);
the statue of Good Works (identified as Leah or Rachel in Wikipedia, I think) should carry a mirror and garland of flowers (as underpinned by the quotation offered by John) not the torch and laurel wreath; this statue was not changed by Michelangelo but was described inaccurately by him.
I don't recall Forc.'s explanation of the reason for M's inaccurate description of the statue of Good Works in his "biography as dictated" to someone whose name I don't recall but it had something to do with M's putative attraction to Luther's ideas and/or the tenets of the Spirituali.
Best, MG
Marjorie Greene
http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/
--- On Sun, 6/19/11, Cormack, Margaret Jean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Cormack, Margaret Jean <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [M-R] Symbol of Good Works
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Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 2:37 PM
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John having answered the first part of this question, I'm curious about the
implications of Marjorie's report, which imply
1) that the statue has been changed, and
2) that torch and laurel wreath imply a connection with the spirituals and/or Martin Luther.
Does anyone have thoughts on this?
Meg
Instead of holding a mirror
> and garland of flowers, as M himself describes the statue in his
> autobiography, Good Works actually holds a torch and a laurel wreath.
> Again according to Forcellino, the mirror and flowers are the accurate
> and appropriate symbol of good works. By using the torch and wreath, M
> was secretly signaling his alliance with the Spirituali, whose
> concerns closely mirrored those of Luther.
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