Bette Talvacchia is an art historian and writer. She is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Connecticut. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery's CASVA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and several appointments at Harvard's Villa I Tatti. She has written and edited numerous books, including Raphael (Phaidon Press, 2007), Sexuality in the Renaissance (1450-1650) (Berg Publishers, 2011) and Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture (Princeton University Press, 1999).
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Chapter 1: Introducing the Two Michelangelos; Chapter 2: Mythological Characters as Agents of Provocation; Chapter 3: Michelangelo's Ignudi of the Sistine Chapel, their Ancestors, Descendants and Caravaggio's Shocking Responses; Chapter 4: Religious Messages Conveyed through Body Language, from Impeccable Heroes to Imperfect Humans; Chapter 5: Renaissance Reckoning in Portraits and Self-Portraits of the Two Michelangelos; Bibliography