This offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo's sculpture and graphic works in his late period. Emily Fenichel argues that much of Michelangelo's late oeuvre was engaged in solving the religious and artistic problems presented by the Counter-Reformation.

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia, 2013, under the title: Michelangelo and Marian theology.