Volume 31, Number 11 · June 28, 1984
Shrinking Michelangelo
By Leo Steinberg
Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study of His Life and Images
by Robert S. Liebert
Yale University Press, 447 pp., $35.00
Francesca di Neri di Miniato del Sera died when the second of her five sons was not quite seven years old. It is the thesis of Dr. Liebert's book—the most ambitious attempt yet made to psychoanalyze a long-dead artist—that her desertion of the young Michelangelo determined forever the artist's character and, 'at the deepest level,' his art.
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