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Author:

Ghadessi, Touba, author.

Title:

Portraits of human monsters in the Renaissance : dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati as idealized anatomical anomalies / Touba Ghadessi.

Publisher:

Medieval Institute PublicationsWestern Michigan University,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

People with disabilities in art.
Abnormalities, Human, in art.
Monsters in art.
Courts and courtiers in art.
Portraits, Renaissance.
Abnormalities, Human, in art.
Courts and courtiers in art.
Monsters in art.
People with disabilities in art.
Portraits, Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Difference as an inquiry -- Renaissance portrait and intellectual frame -- Perfected miniatures: dwarves at court -- A civilized savage: the hirsute's conquest -- Audible absence: the castrato's voice.

Series:

Monsters, prodigies, and demons : medieval and early modern constructions of alterity

ISBN:

1580442757
9781580442756

OCLC:

(OCoLC)992782165

LCCN:

2017045301

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)