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Creator
Date
[2016]
Location
University Park, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xiv, 228 pages
Language
English
Size
26 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 351681
Folger call number: N5273 .G26 2016
Folger holdings ID: 500296
Folger call number: N5273 .G26 2016
Folger holdings ID: 500296
Summary
"Through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic Giulio Mancini, explores early modern art collecting in Italy. Argues that art within domestic contexts was understood to create healthy bodies, minds, and societies through the mechanism of the imagination"--Provided by publisher
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-209) and index
Contents
Art, medical culture, and Mancini's critical fortune -- Illness, health preservation, and recreation -- From exercise to repose -- For beautiful, healthy children -- Preserving the civic body
Item information about Folger N5273 .G26 2016
Gift of Frances Gage
Also known as
Extended title: Painting as medicine in early modern Rome : Giulio Mancini and the efficacy of art / Frances Gage
Subjects
Related names
author: Gage, Frances, 1965-
subject: Mancini, Giulio, 1558-1630
publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
subject: Mancini, Giulio, 1558-1630
publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press