Appel à contribution : “Showing Skin – Epidermal Surfaces in Early Modern Art”, RSA, date limite le 1er août 2025
Type : Paper panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : While skin is the largest organ of the human body, it is also a liminal one that equally contains, reveals, and conceals the body’s interior anatomies and psychic states. As such, it has often achieved an uneasy status between visibility and transparency. Artists gaze intently upon the epidermal surfaces of nude models, but often with the intent to reveal underlying bodily structures. Physicians can diagnose...



