3. The Perfect Body: Masculinity, Creativity, Divinity, and the Nude

Burke, Jill

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Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude

Michelangelo’s study for the figure of Haman on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most celebrated Renaissance drawings of a nude (fig. 3.1). This naked male figure hurls himself forward, his weight resting on his sketchily depicted right foot, his body...

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Jill Burke

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.93-123

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22542

Chapter subject tags:Masculine beauty (Aesthetics)Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Nude in art--Italy--RenaissanceMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Artists' preparatory studies--ItalyLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519NeoplatonismPainting, Renaissance--Italy

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