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Author Egmond, Florike

Title Bodily Extremities : Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Skin and the Search for the Interior: The Representation of Flaying in the Art and Anatomy of the Cinquecento -- 3 'Ogni pittore dipinge sé' -- On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist -- 4 The Repulsive Body: Images of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Naples -- 5 Execution, Dissection, Pain and Infamy -- A Morphological Investigation -- 6 Dissecting Quaresmeprenant -- Rabelais' Representation of the Human Body: A Rhetorical Approach -- 7 Reading New World Bodies -- 8 Physicians' and Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth-Eighteenth-Century Spain -- 9 The Expression of Pain in the Later Middle Ages: Deliverance, Acceptance and Infamy -- Index
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Subject Pain in art.
Human figure in art.
Arts, European.
Violence in art.
Human beings in art.
Arts, European
Human figure in art
Pain in art
Violence in art
Form Electronic book
Author Zwijnenberg, Robert
ISBN 9781351955065
1351955063