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9780271071039 Academic Inspection Copy

Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome

Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
  • ISBN-13: 9780271071039
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Frances Gage
  • Price: AUD $195.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2016
  • Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic Giulio Mancini, explores early modern art collecting in Italy. Argues that art within domestic contexts was understood to create healthy bodies, minds, and societies through the mechanism of the imagination.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Art, Medical Culture, and Mancini’s Critical Fortune

2 Illness, Health Preservation, and Recreation

3 From Exercise to Repose

4 For Beautiful, Healthy Children

5 Preserving the Civic Body

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography


“A text that is exceptionally pleasant to read. All students of painting in Rome—and beyond—will need to take note of it.”

—David Cast, Renaissance Quarterly

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