1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819962803321

Titolo

Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture / / edited by Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-26144-8

1-351-95506-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

EgmondFlorike

ZwijnenbergRobert <1954->

Disciplina

700/.45

Soggetti

Pain in art

Human figure in art

Arts, European

Violence in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction / Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg -- 2. Skin and the search for the interior : the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde -- 3. 'Ogni pittore dipinge se' : on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg -- 4. The repulsive body : images of torture in seventeenth-century Naples / Harald Hendrix -- 5. Execution, dissection, pain and infamy : a morphological investigation / Florike Egmond -- 6. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant : Rabelais' representation of the human body : a rhetorical approach / Paul J. Smith -- 7. Reading new world bodies / Peter Mason -- 8. Physicians' and inquisitors' stories? Circumcision and crypto-Judaism in sixteenth-eighteenth-century Spain / Jose Pardo Tomas -- 9. The expression of pain in the later Middle Ages : deliverance, acceptance and infamy / Esther Cohen.