All Things Move
Book description
A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo's frescoes-and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.
What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes.…
Why read it?
1 author picked All Things Move as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am intrigued by books that move outward from a focus on one object to a larger examination of other subjects. Jeannie Marshall, a Canadian journalist who has lived for over two decades in Rome, starts with Michelangelo’s masterpiece and moves outward to the city, to the nature of art’s power, and inward to her life and family.
I love the intimacy of her voice and her willingness to take herself as the object of intense examination. As a lover of Rome and all things Italian, I picked up this book from the staff recommendation shelf at my favorite local…
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