Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation

Development of integrated innovative techniques for paintings examination: The case studies of The Resurrection of Christ attributed to Andrea Mantegna and the Crucifixion of Viterbo attributed to Michelangelo's workshop

“…The singularity of this difference is that it is present only in the face of St. John and so it appears intentional, as previously discussed also in relation to the historical background [25][26]. Viterbensis is well-documented in literature and most certainly influenced his artistic thought and production, as reported in the literature [42][43][44].…”

Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and the Afterlife of Intimacy

“…As Abigail Brundin has pointed out, there is a defi nitive Marian emphasis in the latter manuscript that diff ers from that produced for Michelangelo. 102 Th e more distant tone struck by the prefatory letter, written by Gualteruzzi, also conforms to the formality that conditioned their exchanges; it might have been deemed exceptionally forward of Colonna to send her work directly to a French royal, so she operated through Gualteruzzi as intermediary, who wrote as though Colonna herself was uninvolved in the volume's production: "So I have had them [the sonnets] transcribed and made up into a little volume, free from any exterior decoration, as is fi tting to the state and profession of the aforementioned lady, who is turned towards the ornaments of the soul and rejects those of the body as vile and unworthy." 103 Such simplicity of presentation is also a hallmark of the manuscript prepared for Michelangelo.…”

Between Repentance and Desire: Women Poets and the Word in Early Modern Italy

“…12 The place of Vittoria Colonna in the history of the Italian lyric tradition and the culture of sixteenth-century Italy has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years. See, most notably, (Rabitti 2000;Colonna 2005Colonna , 2020Colonna , 2021Brundin 2008;Brundin et al 2016;Cajelli 2018;Cox and McHugh 2022). On religious writing by women in the medieval and early modern period with mention of laude and Vittoria Colonna, respectively, see (Librandi 2012, esp.…”