Renaissance skin
Skin in the Renaissance was understood very differently from the skin we know today. In the humoural world of Europe between 1500 and 1700, it was the clothing of the body, a net or a web. It was the skin that forms on hot milk or gruel as it cooled; it was dried polenta, bark, apple peel and the ve...
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| description | Skin in the Renaissance was understood very differently from the skin we know today. In the humoural world of Europe between 1500 and 1700, it was the clothing of the body, a net or a web. It was the skin that forms on hot milk or gruel as it cooled; it was dried polenta, bark, apple peel and the very crust of the earth itself. Whether human or animal, it was understood as highly, and often dangerously, porous. As such Renaissance skin was opened to allow internal vapours to leave the body (as sweat, tears, urine, faeces and hair) and closed against external elements. This book explores Renaissance skin as a bodily surface, as physical matter and as a generator of new knowledge. It asks how you managed your health in a changing global environment, one where the air itself could be pathogenic, where syphilis suddenly appeared and where smallpox became much more virulent. How did you see your body in a world where there was suddenly a multiplicity of skin colours and skin decorations? Ranging across anatomy, surgery and sausage making, it explores how skin was managed by physicians and surgeons as well as by glovemakers, butchers and parchment makers. It asks what happens when you see skin differently, either in the marketplace as men and women from far-away places were put on display, or under the microscope. In doing so, it allows us to see the past as having a distinctive, and very different way of understanding bodily experiences. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1626422025-07-09T05:37:33Z Renaissance skin Welch, Evelyn the Renaissance; early modern period; depictions of skin; cultural history of skin; skin diseases; Renaissance art; Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award; baldness; pox; animal skin; cosmetics; clothing; Titian; Wenceslaus Hollar; Jean Michelin; Rembrandt van Rijn; Pieter Bruegel the Younger; Pieter Aertsen; Joachim Beuckelaer; tanning; Mattia Giegher; art history; material culture; fashion history; Wolfson History Prize; skin; medical humanities; history of medicine; Renaissance Europe; early modern Europe; smallpox; history of skin colour and race; history of slavery; history of microscopy; history of science thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6R Styles (R)::6RC Renaissance style thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art Skin in the Renaissance was understood very differently from the skin we know today. In the humoural world of Europe between 1500 and 1700, it was the clothing of the body, a net or a web. It was the skin that forms on hot milk or gruel as it cooled; it was dried polenta, bark, apple peel and the very crust of the earth itself. Whether human or animal, it was understood as highly, and often dangerously, porous. As such Renaissance skin was opened to allow internal vapours to leave the body (as sweat, tears, urine, faeces and hair) and closed against external elements. This book explores Renaissance skin as a bodily surface, as physical matter and as a generator of new knowledge. It asks how you managed your health in a changing global environment, one where the air itself could be pathogenic, where syphilis suddenly appeared and where smallpox became much more virulent. How did you see your body in a world where there was suddenly a multiplicity of skin colours and skin decorations? Ranging across anatomy, surgery and sausage making, it explores how skin was managed by physicians and surgeons as well as by glovemakers, butchers and parchment makers. It asks what happens when you see skin differently, either in the marketplace as men and women from far-away places were put on display, or under the microscope. In doing so, it allows us to see the past as having a distinctive, and very different way of understanding bodily experiences. 2025-07-09T05:37:31Z 2025-07-09T05:37:31Z 2025-07-08T12:31:38Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104016 9781526167750 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162642 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104016/1/9781526167767.pdf Manchester University Press 9781526167767 9781526167767 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781526167750 400 open access |
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| topic | the Renaissance; early modern period; depictions of skin; cultural history of skin; skin diseases; Renaissance art; Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award; baldness; pox; animal skin; cosmetics; clothing; Titian; Wenceslaus Hollar; Jean Michelin; Rembrandt van Rijn; Pieter Bruegel the Younger; Pieter Aertsen; Joachim Beuckelaer; tanning; Mattia Giegher; art history; material culture; fashion history; Wolfson History Prize; skin; medical humanities; history of medicine; Renaissance Europe; early modern Europe; smallpox; history of skin colour and race; history of slavery; history of microscopy; history of science thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6R Styles (R)::6RC Renaissance style thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art |
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