1st Edition
Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe Picturing the Social Margins
Edited By Tom Nichols
Copyright 2007
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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 volume offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking analysis of a wide range of images featuring Jews and Turks, roguish beggars, syphilitics and plague victims, the 'deserving poor', toothpullers, beggar philosophers, black slaves,... Read more
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.
Biography
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).
