Piers D G Britton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6336105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers D G Britton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers D G |
| FAMILY NAME | Britton |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTON P D G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Raphael and the bad humours of painters in Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Throughout his monumental series of artists’ biographies, and above all in the section of this text dealing with his contemporaries, Giorgio Vasari used the medically related terms ‘complexion’ and ‘humour’ in distinct – though not wholly discrete – ways. The former is deployed to comment on artists’ innate constitutional strength and on changes in their health, while the latter is invoked primarily to characterize pathological tendencies – often…
The Signs of Faces
Leonardo da Vinci's engagement with the ancient science of physiognomy has been noted by several scholars, but most studies have provided tendentious accounts of his attitude to the discipline. There has, in short, been too great a willingness to view Leonardo as ‘proto‐modern’ in his outlook, and to detach him artificially from earlier conceptual models of physiognomic science. The purpose of this article is to suggest, with reference primarily …
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The Signs of Faces
Leonardo da Vinci's engagement with the ancient science of physiognomy has been noted by several scholars, but most studies have provided tendentious accounts of his attitude to the discipline. There has, in short, been too great a willingness to view Leonardo as ‘proto‐modern’ in his outlook, and to detach him artificially from earlier conceptual models of physiognomic science. The purpose of this article is to suggest, with reference primarily …
Raphael and the bad humours of painters in Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Throughout his monumental series of artists’ biographies, and above all in the section of this text dealing with his contemporaries, Giorgio Vasari used the medically related terms ‘complexion’ and ‘humour’ in distinct – though not wholly discrete – ways. The former is deployed to comment on artists’ innate constitutional strength and on changes in their health, while the latter is invoked primarily to characterize pathological tendencies – often…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History of Medicine Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Painting (2 works) · Admiration (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Biography (1 work) · Certainty (1 work)