Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Michelanelo Buonarroti

  • The Anatomy of Michelangelo (1475-1564)

    JMS PearceEast Yorks, England Michelangelo Buonarroti was an exception to the rule that the qualities of many brilliant artists and composers are realized and extolled only after death. He was recognized by contemporaries as a genius, a “Hero of the High Renaissance,” the only artist of whom it was claimed in his lifetime that he…