Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome by Gage & Frances Associate Professor & SUNY Buffalo

Pennsylvania State University Press
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome by Gage & Frances Associate Professor & SUNY Buffalo
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome by Gage & Frances Associate Professor & SUNY Buffalo
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  • Title: Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome by Gage & Frances Associate Professor & SUNY Buffalo
  • Author: Gage & Frances Associate Professor & SUNY Buffalo
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • History of art art & design styles
  • No. of pages: 248
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 267 x 213 x 27

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Through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic Giulio Mancini explores early modern art collecting in Italy. Argues that art within domestic contexts was understood to create healthy bodies minds and societies through the mechanism of the imagination.