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

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Wind (art history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) examines depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, and dwarfs in the work of Vel zquez, 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 shows how human freaks piqued the era's general fasci

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ISBN:	9781859284261
Publisher:	Ashgate
Imprint:	Ashgate
Pub date:	28 Feb 1998
DEWEY:	704.949616043
DEWEY edition:	21
Number of pages:	150
Weight:	498g
Height:	162mm
Width:	242mm
Spine width:	19mm