Michelangelo and the English martyrs

Contents

Three cardinals and a pope -- The martyrdom of the English Carthusian fathers -- The broadsheet images -- Reginald Pole and the broadsheet -- Michelangelo and the Cappella Paolina: the final frescoes -- Ecclesia viterbiensis -- Reginald Pole and the Cappella Paolina frescoes -- Michelangelo in the broadsheet images -- Postcards of Rome -- English martyrs in a Roman landscape -- Prints, cartoons and drawings -- Anatomists and artists -- The cardinal and his physician -- A demonstration of a dissection -- Anatomical research and the Archconfraternity of San Giovanni Decollato -- The case of Michael Servetus and pulmonary circulation -- The artist -- The recipient -- Coda.