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

A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of 'Freaks' in Baroque Art image
ISBN-10:

1859284264

ISBN-13:

9781859284261

Author(s): Wind, Barry
Released: Jan 01, 1998
Publisher: Scolar Pr
Format: Hardcover, 150 pages
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Description:

Wind (art history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) examines depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, and dwarfs in the work of Velbzquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, and other artists of the 17th century. He traces the types of mental and physical infirmity from their origins in antiquity, and sho

























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