Cybele: an anachronism in Vasari's biography of Michelangelo and its reasons, pt.II.

'Argues that Vasari's neoimperial interpretation of M's 1505 project for the tomb of Julius II is supported by extensive evidence of the pope's identification with Roman emperors and gods. Also argues that the provincie soggiogate represented by the prisoners on the tomb, and the frieze depicting Julius' feats as pope, were not anachronistic but were conceived in anticipation of the military expansion of Christendom under Julius and the advent of the Golden Age described in a sermon of Giles of Viterbo following the victories and discoveries of the Portuguese. (pt.1 appeared in Revista de História da arte e arqueologia, (1994) no.1, 59ff.' (BHA).