Title: Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture /
Authors: Egmond, Florike.; Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Human figure in art; Violence in art.; Pain in art.; Arts, European.
Abstract: "A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating disorders, early modern preoccupations encompassed such diverse phenomena as monstrous births and physical deformity, body snatching, public dissection, flagellation, judicial torture and public punishment. This volume explores such extreme manifestations of early modern bodily obsessions and fascinations, and their wider cultural significance."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Skin and the search for the interior: the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde -- 'Ogni pittore dipinge sé ; on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg --The repulsive body: images of torture in seventeenth-century Naples / Harald Hendrix -- Execution, dissection, pain and infamy: a morphological investigation / Florike Egmond -- Dissecting quaresmeprenant; Rabelais' representation of the human body: a rhetorical approach / Paul J. Smith -- Reading new world bodies / Peter Mason -- Physicians' and inquisitors' stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in sixteenth-eighteenth-century Spain / José Pardo Tomás -- The expression of pain in the later Middle ages: deliverance, acceptance and infamy / Esther Cohen.