Beauty: The Body as Artefact

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Beauty: The Body as Artefact

Historical Sources from Cicero to Goya

Sammern, Romana; Saviello, Julia

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Acknowledgements

Lists of figures

List of contributors

Introduction: The beautiful body as a product of art

Romana Sammern and Julia Saviello

1. Cicero: Perfect beauty as compound (ca. 86-84 BC)

Julia Saviello

2. Ovid: The appearance of natural beauty (1st century AD)

Romana Sammern

3. Apuleius: The allure of beautiful hair (ca. 160/170)

Julia Saviello

4. Isidor of Seville: Painting as make-up (c. 620)

Wolf-Dietrich Loehr

5. Trota of Salerno: Transmitting beautifying knowledge (first half of the 12th century)

Montserrat Cabre

6. Hildegard of Bingen: Hair and adornment of nuns (ca. 1150)

Philippe Cordez

7. Gerard of Cremona: Galen in translation - canonicity and race (before 1187)

Robert Brennan

8. Vincent of Beauvais: Makeup as the loss of the divine image (1247/49)

Wolf-Dietrich Loehr

9. Francesco Petrarca: Fragments and colours of beauty (ca. 1336/1374)

Julia Saviello

10. Franco Sacchetti: Women's art as a correction of creation (ca. 1390)

Wolf-Dietrich Loehr

11. Lorenzo Valla: The pleasure of beauty (1431)

Alberto Saviello

12. Leon Battista Alberti: Genealogy of beauty (1433-34)

Julia Saviello

13. Giovanni Borromeo: Male beauty and power (1468)

Timothy McCall

14. Leonardo da Vinci: Unkempt and naturally beautiful (ca. 1492)

Julia Saviello

15. Baldassare Castiglione: The charm of effortlessness (1528)

Romana Sammern

16. Albrecht Duerer: The diversity of the human body (1528)

Romana Sammern

17. Erasmus von Rotterdam: The body as a moving image (1530)

Wolf-Dietrich Loehr

18. Agnolo Firenzuola: The woman as a beautiful object (1541)

Romana Sammern

19. Benedetto Varchi: Grace and beauty (1540s?)

Fabian Jonietz

20. Giovanni Marinello: Cosmetic recipes (1562)

Elena Lazzari

21. Alessandro Allori: A beautiful surface and bones that evoke sadness (1560s)

Helen Barr

22. Lodovico Dolce: The beauty of the female complexion (1565)

Romana Sammern

23. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo: Graceful folds - the textile shell of the body (1584)

Julia Saviello

24. Giovan Battista Della Porta: The physiognomy of the beautiful body (1586)

Romana Sammern

25. Peter Paul Rubens: The beauty of trained bodies (ca. 1610)

Romana Sammern

26. William Shakespeare: The nature of the beautiful (ca. 1610/11)

Laura Gronius

27. Girard Thibault: Movement in harmony with the body (1630)

Julia Saviello

28. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Similarity and idealization (1665)

Heiko Damm

29. Marie Meurdrac: Teaching ladies the art of beauty (1666)

Erin Griffey and Victoria Munn

30. Gerard Audran: Measuring the ideal body of antiquity (1683)

Julia Saviello

31. Aphra Behn: Slavery and 'the standard of true beauty'

Kim F. Hall and Tapiwa Gambura

32. Gerard de Lairesse: The colours of nature (1707)

Ulrike Kern

33. William Hogarth: Curls and other beautiful entanglements (1753)

Julia Saviello

34. Alexander Cozens: The end of the canon of beauty (1778)

Anja Zimmermann

35. Claude-Henri Watelet: Flesh tones and the beauty of white skin (1788)

Mechthild Fend

36. Francisco de Goya: Painting as make-up (1794)

Wolfram Pichler

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Art History;Art;Art Theory;History of the Body;Cultural History;Historiography;Interdisciplinary;Renaissance