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Étiqueté : chevelure

Journées d’étude : « Hirsute, Downy, Hairless. Meanings and Forms of Body Hair in Early Modern Visual Culture », Florence/en ligne, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, 24-25 octobre 2025

While long overlooked in art historical studies, over the past two decades body hair has emerged as a significant field of research offering new perspectives on Early Modern visual culture. This workshop brings together scholars from various disciplines to facilitate comparative analyses of visual traditions and discuss the representation of body hair in different genres and regions, ranging from Western Europe to South Asia. By foregrounding the seemingly marginal yet culturally charged representation of body...

Parution : Emanuele Lugli, “Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence”, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2023

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. In this innovative cultural history, hair is the portal through which Emanuele Lugli accesses the cultural production of Lorenzo il Magnifico’s Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers, doctors, and artists expressed religious prejudices, health beliefs, and gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. He considers what may have compelled Sandro...