Fleshing out surfaces: Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850
ISBN: 9781526104663
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Art & Art History ; History of Science & Technology;

A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine.

Mechthild Fend is Reader in History of Art at University College London

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