Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850
by
Mechthild Fend
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that...