The art of poverty: Irony and ideal in sixteenth-century beggar imagery

by Tom Nichols

The art of poverty is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719075823
• ISBN13: 9780719075827
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.5"