Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-261) index.
Contents:
Others and Outcasts in Northern Art of the 16th Century. Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch / Debra Higgs Strickland -- The vagabond image: representing false beggars in northern art of the sixteenth century / Tom Nichols -- Imagery of the Deserving and Institutionalized Poor in Italian Art. Poor substitutes: imaging disease and vagrancy in Renaissance Venice / Philip Cottrell -- Poverty and papal piety in Rome, c.1600: painting, pastoralism, and spectacle / Peter Higginson -- Blindness, lameness and mendicancy in Italy (from the 14th to the 18th centuries) / Livio Pestilli -- Insiders/Outsiders: Visualizing the Social Margins. The Caravaggesque toothpuller / John Gash -- Relics of the Golden Age: the vagabond philosopher / Helen Langdon -- Constructing the black slave in early modern Spanish painting / Carmen Fracchia -- 'Some tymes J have a shillinge aday, and some tymes nothinge, so that J leve in great poverty': British actors in the paintings of Frans Hals / M.A. Katritzky -- In search of the marginal and the outcast: the 'lower orders' in the Cries of London and Dublin / Sean Shesgreen.
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