Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era - Pestilli, Livio
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This study evinces that in opposition to classical artists, who manifested a lack of interest in the subject of lameness, their Early Christian counterparts depicted them, as images of the miraculous healing of the lame became a sign of acceptance and the promise of a more equitable existence in this life or the next.

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This study evinces that in opposition to classical artists, who manifested a lack of interest in the subject of lameness, their Early Christian counterparts depicted them, as images of the miraculous healing of the lame became a sign of acceptance and the promise of a more equitable existence in this life or the next.
Autorenporträt
Livio Pestilli is Director and Professor of Art History at Trinity College-Rome Campus, Italy. He is the author of Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe (Ashgate, 2013).