Representing infirmity : diseased bodies in Renaissance Italy /

"This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c.1400-1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy (Conference) Prato, Italy)
Other Authors:	Henderson, John, 1949 June 12- (Editor), Jacobs, Fredrika Herman (Editor), Nelson, Jonathan K. (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Series:	Body in the city.
Subjects:	Sick in art. People with disabilities in art. Diseases in art. Art and society > Italy > History. Art and society. Italy. History.

Table of Contents:

Approaches to the representation of infirmity. Cancer in Michelangelo's Night / Jonathan K. Nelson
Institutions and visualising illness. The friar as medico / Diana Bullen Presciutti
Disease and treatment. Artistic representations of goitre in early modern Italian art / Danielle Carrabino
Saints and miraculous healing. Infirmity in votive culture / Fredrika Jacobs.