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Hansen's In Michelangelo's Mirror is a vivid reminder that [the] debates [surrounding Michelangelo's art] were once more vital, and that artists as well as writers could take nuanced positions in the discourse. --Bernadine Barnes, caa.reviews Morten Steen Hansen's impressively researched book finally makes sense of a series of dense, allusive paintings that have long resisted persuasive interpretation. But more than this, the book represents a sustained act of historical criticism: perceiving the ambitions that run through different projects and shining light on their inventiveness, virtuosity, and wit, Hansen makes his three subjects into newly attractive figures. This is a book that should change the way we teach and write about the period. --Michael Cole, Columbia University [In Michelangelo's Mirror] is a fundamental addition to the study of a complex period deserving of more attention, especially for its thorough account of Tibaldi, whose subtle and extraordinary frescos representing the myth of Ulysses in the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna may come as a revelation to some readers compared to the more accessible frescos of Perino and Daniele da Volterra in Rome. The sophistication of the book's interpretative framework also makes it of interest to students of other periods. --David Franklin, Burlington Magazine In this tightly woven, thoughtful, highly instructive, copiously illustrated, and beautifully produced book, which all members of the Renaissance Society of America will want to read or, at least, peruse, Morten Steen Hansen shares his undisguised passion for Tibaldi in a winning manner. --Paul Barolsky, Renaissance Quarterly

[In Michelangelo's Mirror] is a fundamental addition to the study of a complex period deserving of more attention, especially for its thorough account of Tibaldi, whose subtle and extraordinary frescos representing the myth of Ulysses in the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna may come as a revelation to some readers compared to the more accessible frescos of Perino and Daniele da Volterra in Rome. The sophistication of the book's interpretative framework also makes it of interest to students of other periods. --David Franklin, Burlington Magazine

In this tightly woven, thoughtful, highly instructive, copiously illustrated, and beautifully produced book, which all members of the Renaissance Society of America will want to read or, at least, peruse, Morten Steen Hansen shares his undisguised passion for Tibaldi in a winning manner. Paul Barolsky, Renaissance Quarterly

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Morten Steen Hansen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

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