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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 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

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Christian K. Kleinbub is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at The Ohio State University and CoDirector of the New Foundation of Art History. He is the author of the award-winning Vision and the Visionary in Raphael, also published by Penn State University Press.

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