Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies offers an entirely fresh perspective on Michelangelo, the Renaissance’s most original thinker on the human body. By amassing a wealth of often little-known contemporary sources combined with a new way of looking at Michelangelo’s art, Kleinbub makes us reconsider what the human body meant to Michelangelo and his public—and to us. This book is a must-read for everyone interested in early modern art, poetry, and medicine.”
—Joost Keizer,author of The Realism of Piero della Francesca
“It is rare when a book offers a fundamentally new way of considering the artist. Christian K. Kleinbub’s book Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies does just that. It offers meaningful and original investigations into Michelangelo’s sense of self and the meaning of his art.”
—A. Victor Coonin CAA.Reviews
“The author argues that from . . . various literary sources Michelangelo created a flexible system for representing the human form that is often problematic for the modern viewer. Kleinbub’s intelligent discussion helps to explain unusual gestures, poses, and other compositional details in Michelangelo’s art and also adds new layers of meaning to the specific works he considers. Particularly admirable are Kleinbub's close study of a great number of texts, as well as the resultant nuanced readings of Michelangelo’s sculpture, painting, and architecture.”
—J. B. Gregory Choice
“Through careful consideration of images and ideas [this book] helps us to understand how Michelangelo gave visual form to the internal organs and all they represent.”
—Bernadine Barnes Renaissance Quarterly
“Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies is an overdue addition that brings histories of the humoral body to bear on Michelangelo scholarship with relevance to art and architectural historians.”
—Dijana O. Apostolski Renaissance and Reformation
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Liver and Desire
2. The Heart Under Siege
3. The Love of the Heart
4. Faith in the Heart
5. The Brain, Judgment, and Movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
