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Filtering by: Creator Touba Ghadessi Fleming Resource type Dissertation Subject Art History

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Description:: During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many images of dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati depict them in the guise of the monstrous, either as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit. However, there are some Renaissance portraits of physically deformed individuals that transcend these categories. These portraits point to the...
Keyword:: hirsute, anatomy, monster, Renaissance, dwarf, castrato, and portraiture
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Touba Ghadessi Fleming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/01/2018
Date Modified:: 06/01/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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