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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 Velaquez, 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 antiquity and traces their development into the Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the contemporary collection of other exotica, convoluted shells and strange animals, but human...

Published for the exhibition "Old Master Drawings from Area Collections" held in the Milwaukee Art Museum, this book is a critique of this collection, identifying strengths and weaknesses.
Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.