A Foul and Pestilent Congregation : Images of "Freaks" in Baroque Art
A Foul and Pestilent Congregation : Images of
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Author(s): Wind, Barry
ISBN No.: 9781859284261
Pages: xii, 150
Year: 199801
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 124.13
Status: Out Of Print

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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