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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Description: In Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies (Penn State University Press), Christian Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnificent portrayals of the human body, was merely concerned with “superficial” anatomy—that is, the parts of the body that can be seen from the outside.Providing a fresh perspective on the artist’s portrayals of the human figure, Kleinbub investigates what he calls the artist’s “inner anatomical poetics,” revealing the Michelangelo’s beautiful bodies as objects of profound intellectual and spiritual significance.In so doing, Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies illuminates how Renaissance discourses on anatomical organs an...