1st Edition
A Foul and Pestilent Congregation Images of Freaks in Baroque Art
By Barry Wind
Copyright 1998
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists including Veláquez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm established in... Read more
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.
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Barry Wind
