All Things Move, Jeannie Marshall
All Things Move, Jeannie Marshall
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All Things Move
Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

Author: Jeannie Marshall

Narrator: Fiona Hyatt

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 04/28/2023

Synopsis

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. She wanted to understand their meaning and context—but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel tells the story of Marshall’s relationship with one of our most cherished artworks. Interwoven with the history of its making and the Rome of today, it’s an exploration of the past in the present, the street in the museum, and the way a work of art can both terrify and alchemize the soul. An impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age, All Things Move is a quietly sublime meditation on how our lives can be changed by art, if only we learn to look.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Haley on December 03, 2023

This memoir was kinda like the book baby of two others I enjoyed this year: In A Dark Wood (by Joseph Luzzi) and All The Beauty In The World (by Patrick Bringley). It had the same soul searching as those two, done so in the light of encounters with great works of literature and artwork (Dante's Divin......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on February 15, 2024

What an interesting book! I really had no desire to see the Sistine Chapel, but I think this may have changed my mind. The author had so much of her own background as well as church history woven throughout. She says she is an atheist, so it was an interesting viewpoint to read about all that from.......more

Goodreads review by Rona on March 31, 2023

Elegant, original and bursting with insight, ALL THINGS MOVE is the prelude I wish I'd had for my first and only encounter with the most celebrated art work in the Western canon--Michelangelo's iconic frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Neither my brain nor my eyes could take them in as I craned......more

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life) on July 14, 2023

RATING: 3.5 STARS......more

Goodreads review by Noelle on June 12, 2023

An intelligent, gentle musing on what art does for us, and how we shape the culture of "art" in return. Marshall has a subtle feel for telling detail. Her personal and family histories, divulged and applied to her observations of the famous Sistine Chapel, make Michelangelo's fingers reach toward ou......more

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