Non finito: Michelangelo, Rilke, and the Poetics of the Fragment Ghent University
The project reevaluates the relation between modern theories of literary, psychoanalytical, and philosophical fragmentation and Michelangelo Buonarroti’s late artistic style, non finito. The research explores the influence of Michelangelo’s poetry on Rainer Maris Rilke’s oeuvre and the latter’s translation of Michelangelo’s poems, as well as the development of later variations of non finito in Modernism.
The second module of the project ...