A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of Freaks in Baroque Art

by Barry Wind

First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists including Vel quez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm established in antiquity and traces their development into the Baroque...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138612898
• ISBN13: 9781138612891
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"