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Article: Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin.
(Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 71.) Leiden and New York: Brill, 1998. xiv + 276 pp. n.p. ISBN: 90-04-11175-1.
A strange thing happened on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, when the fingers of God and Adam nearly touched: fingers and fingernails, the structure and movement of hands, the understanding of touch in God and man became charged with new meanings that differed from the past at the same time that they paid homage to that past. For Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle in her new book, Senses of Touch, Michelangelo's ceiling is the hub around which ...