Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy

ISBN-13: 9780367470203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

John Henderson; Fredrika Jacobs; Jonathan K. Nelson

Opis

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c.1400-1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts.

Spis treści

Part 1: Approaches to the representation of infirmity  1 Cancer in Michelangelo’s Night. An analytical framework for retrospective diagnoses  2 The language of medicine in Renaissance preaching  3 Representing infirmity in early modern Florence  Part 2: Institutions and visualising illness  4 On display: poverty as infirmity and its visual representation at the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena  5 The friar as medico: picturing leprosy, institutional care, and Franciscan virtues in La Franceschina  Part 3: Disease and treatment  6 The drama of infirmity: cupping in sixteenth-century Italy  7 Suffering through it: visual and textual representations of bodies in surgery in the wake of Lepanto (1571)  8 Artistic representations of goitre in early modern art in Italy Part 4: Saints and miraculous healing  9 Infirmity in votive culture: a case study from the sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Arco, Naples  10 Infirmity and the miraculous in the early seventeenth century: the San Carlo cycle of paintings in the Duomo of Milan  11 Epilogue: did Mona Lisa suffer from hypothyroidism? Visual representations of sickness and the vagaries of retrospective diagnosis