Representing Infirmity : Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy.
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Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Approaches to the representation of infirmity
- 1 Cancer in Michelangelo's Night. An analytical framework for retrospective diagnoses
- 2 The language of medicine in Renaissance preaching
- 3 Representing infirmity in early modern Florence
- Part II Institutions and visualizing illness
- 4 On display: poverty as infirmity and its visual representation at the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena.
- 5 The friar as medico: picturing leprosy, institutional care, and Franciscan virtues in La Franceschina
- Part III Disease and treatment
- 6 The drama of infirmity: cupping in sixteenth-century Italy
- 7 Suffering through it: visual and textual representations of bodies in surgery in the wake of Lepanto (1571)
- 8 Artistic representations of goitre in early modern art in Italy
- Part IV Saints and miraculous healing
- 9 Infirmity in votive culture: a case study from the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Arco, Naples.
- 10 Infirmity and the miraculous in the early seventeenth century: the San Carlo cycle of paintings in the Duomo of Milan
- 11 Epilogue: did Mona Lisa suffer from hypothyroidism? Visual representations of sickness and the vagaries of retrospective diagnosis
- Index
- Index of diseases.