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Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art Gage, Frances (Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo)
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
Gage, Frances (Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo)
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.
black & white halftones, colour illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 3, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271071039 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 213 × 267 × 27 mm · 1.27 kg |