A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of Freaks in Baroque Art

ISBN-13: 9781138612891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str.

Barry Wind

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Barry Wind