Noli me tangere: An Inquiry into the Visual Culture

To Sow the Heart: Touch, Spiritual Anatomy, and Image Theory in Michelangelo’sNoli me tangere*

“… 22 Rafanelli, 2004, 283, detects “latent erotic tension” in Christ’s gesture, and on 313, wonders whether this sensuality was not inspired by Titian’s Noli me tangere in London, though her larger reading finally rejects the erotic implications. …”

“…Ibid., 103, compares more erotically-charged Renaissance images of the Noli me tangere to the more chaste design of Michelangelo. Also, on the sacred and profane in Titian’s painting, see D’Elia, 2005, 20–22; Rafanelli, 2009, 36–45, which cites much of the literature on the painting.…”

“… 32 Rafanelli, 2004, 206–08, 283, 363–65. The legend first appeared in a late fifteenth-century Dominican book, Aurea Rosa , as first described by Mâle, 250–51.…”