Barry Wind

A Foul and Pestilent Congregation (eBook, ePUB)

Images of Freaks in Baroque Art

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs in the Baroque period in order to set these images in their context and explain this obsession with difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429865138
• Artikelnr.: 54795977

Autorenporträt

Barry Wind

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Unlike Form Oft Blended Be Into One Hideous Deformity'. 2. The Court
and its Cruel Pleasures: 'Freaks' in Italy. 3. 'Great Wonders of Nature':
Ribera and Deformity. 4. Spain and the 'Hombre de Placer'. 5. Courtiers and
Burghers: the Depiction of 'Freaks' North of the Alps. 6. Enlightened
Attitudes: the Eighteenth Century and Beyond.