Beauty: The Body As Artefact: Historical Sources from Cicero to Goya - Softcover

 
9781032735702: Beauty: The Body As Artefact: Historical Sources from Cicero to Goya
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1032735708 ISBN 13: 9781032735702
Verlag: Routledge, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation.

Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory, medical practices and cosmetics, it reveals how ideals of beauty and beautification shaped conceptions of gender, the body and artistic creation. The book focuses on the early modern period, when the cosmetic transformation of the body became closely associated with artistic imagery and techniques. Drawing on art-historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives, the volume presents key writings by figures from Cicero and Alberti to Behn and Hogarth, highlighting shifting notions of imitation, ornament, and naturalness.

Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, cultural history, and gender studies, Beauty: The Body as Artefact offers a framework for understanding physical beauty as a historical and artistic category at the intersection of image, body, and knowledge.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Romana Sammern is an Art Historian based at the Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges (University of Salzburg/Mozarteum University). She researches the intersections of body, image, and medicine in the early modern period. She holds a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin and a habilitation from the University of Passau. Her research has been supported by fellowships in Austria, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Julia Saviello is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History, Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research centres on hair and the human body, objects as image carriers, and the intersections of ceramics and nature in the early modern period. Her publications include Verlockungen. Haare in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit (2017) and Der Schild und das Bild (forthcoming).

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1032735708
ISBN 13 
9781032735702
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
Herausgeber
Sammern Romana, Saviello Julia
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Routledge
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