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Representing infirmity : diseased bodies in Renaissance Italy

Title: Representing infirmity : diseased bodies in Renaissance Italy / edited by John Henderson, Fredrika Jacobs and Jonathan K. Nelson.
Author: Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy (Conference) (2017 : Prato, Italy), author.
Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

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Description

xv, 255 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"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. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealised body altered by diseases including leprosy, plague, goiter, and cancer. The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe"--

Series Statement

The body in the city

Uniform Title

Body in the city.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Approaches to the representation of infirmity. Cancer in Michelangelo's Night / Jonathan K. Nelson -- Institutions and visualising illness. The friar as medico / Diana Bullen Presciutti -- Disease and treatment. Artistic representations of goitre in early modern Italian art / Danielle Carrabino -- Saints and miraculous healing. Infirmity in votive culture / Fredrika Jacobs.

Call Number

JQE 21-670

ISBN

9780367470203
0367470209
9780367470210
0367470217

LCCN

2020024938

OCLC

1158508964

Conference

Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy (Conference) (2017 : Prato, Italy), author.

Title

Representing infirmity : diseased bodies in Renaissance Italy / edited by John Henderson, Fredrika Jacobs and Jonathan K. Nelson.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The body in the city

Body in the city.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Henderson, John, 1949 June 12- editor.

Jacobs, Fredrika Herman, editor.

Nelson, Jonathan K., editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 21-670

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