Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The collection offers a comprehensive analysis of imagery featuring a wide range of marginalized types including Jews, roguish beggars, black slaves and prostitutes, among others. Contributors highlight how poor and marginal people came to play a significant role in European art in the early modern period.
Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The collection offers a comprehensive analysis of imagery featuring a wide range of marginalized types including Jews, roguish beggars, black slaves and prostitutes, among others. Contributors highlight how poor and marginal people came to play a significant role in European art in the early modern period.
Dr Tom Nichols is Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of Aberdeen, UK. His other published work includes Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity (Reaktion Books, 1999) and The Art of Poverty: Irony and Ideal in Sixteenth Century Beggar Imagery (Manchester University Press, 2007).
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Contents: Introduction Tom Nichols. Part I Others and Outcasts in Northern Art of the 16th Century: Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch Debra Higgs Strickland; The vagabond image: representing false beggars in northern art of the 16th century Tom Nichols. Part II Imagery of the Deserving and Institutionalised Poor in Italian Art: Poor substitutes: imaging disease and vagrancy in Renaissance Venice Philip Cottrell; Poverty and papal piety in Rome ca.1600: painting pastoralism and spectacle Peter Higginson; Blindness lameness and mendicancy in Italy (XIV-XVIII centuries) Livio Pestilli. Part III Insiders/Outsiders: Visualising the Social Margins: The Caravaggesque toothpuller John Gash; Relics of the Golden Age: the vagabond philosopher Helen Langdon; Constructing the black slave in early modern Spanish painting Carmen Fracchia; 'Some tymes J have a shillinge aday and some tymes nothinge so that J leve in great poverty': British actors in the paintings of Frans Hals M.A. Katritzky; In search of the marginal and outcast: the 'lower orders' in the cries of London and Dublin Sean Shesgreen. Index.
Contents: Introduction Tom Nichols. Part I Others and Outcasts in Northern Art of the 16th Century: Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch Debra Higgs Strickland; The vagabond image: representing false beggars in northern art of the 16th century Tom Nichols. Part II Imagery of the Deserving and Institutionalised Poor in Italian Art: Poor substitutes: imaging disease and vagrancy in Renaissance Venice Philip Cottrell; Poverty and papal piety in Rome ca.1600: painting pastoralism and spectacle Peter Higginson; Blindness lameness and mendicancy in Italy (XIV-XVIII centuries) Livio Pestilli. Part III Insiders/Outsiders: Visualising the Social Margins: The Caravaggesque toothpuller John Gash; Relics of the Golden Age: the vagabond philosopher Helen Langdon; Constructing the black slave in early modern Spanish painting Carmen Fracchia; 'Some tymes J have a shillinge aday and some tymes nothinge so that J leve in great poverty': British actors in the paintings of Frans Hals M.A. Katritzky; In search of the marginal and outcast: the 'lower orders' in the cries of London and Dublin Sean Shesgreen. Index.
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