Published in 2023
4 hours and 28 minutes
Jeannie Marshall is a writer who has been living in Italy with her family since 2002. She is the author of a non-fiction book about the implications of the worldwide change in the way that children eat. In Canada it’s called Outside the Box: Why Our Children Need Real Food, Not Food Products and in the United States it’s called The Lost Art of Feeding Kids. She is a journalist and contributes articles to Macleans and The Walrus, and has published literary non-fiction essays in The Common, Brick, Literary Review of Canada, and Literary Mama. She was a staff features writer at the National Post in Toronto.
What is this book about?
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.
