Michelangelo's Nose

Paul Barolsky is Commonwealth Professor of the History of Art at the University of Virginia. His books on Renaissance art with Penn State Press include The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art (1994), Giotto's Father and the Family of Vasari's "Lives" (1992), and Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari (1991).

“Often whimsical, yet deeply erudite, Barolsky’s treatment of Michelangelo’s nose as the center of his autobiography, self-creation, and iconography is a stimulating and suggestive book.”—Lectura Dantis