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Renaissance Skin
Welch, Evelyn: Renaissance Skin. 2025. 388 pages, illustrated. Paperback. 25 x 19cms. Looking at the cultural significance of skin textures and colours, as depicted in 1500-1700 in European art. 12 essays discuss experimentations with ear-piercing and surgery, Renaissance physiognomy, chiromancy, metoposcopy and the art of reading moles, depictions of poxed skin, acne and wrinkles, the role of pores in the practice of medicine, the use of animal skins for clothing, parchment and in the kitchen, the documentation of first dissections, Renaissance perception and understanding of skin colour, and the effect of bugs, nits and mites.
Looking at the cultural significance of skin textures and colours, as depicted in 1500-1700 in European art. 12 essays discuss experimentations with ear-piercing and surgery, Renaissance physiognomy, chiromancy, metoposcopy and the art of reading moles, depictions of poxed skin, acne and wrinkles, the role of pores in the practice of medicine, the use of animal skins for clothing, parchment and in the kitchen, the documentation of first dissections, Renaissance perception and understanding of skin colour, and the effect of bugs, nits and mites
Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600
Welch, Evelyn: Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. London and New Haven: 2005. 401pp with 9 colour plates, 57 colour and 147 monochrome illustrations. Cloth, 25.2x18cms. Explores Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace and the variety of goods to be purchased there, from foodstuffs to the acquisitions of antiquities and holy relics. The author looks at the whole spectrum of people shopping, men and women from all social classes. Examines the impact these findings had on urban spaces and Renaissance cities, on the sales at fairs, auctions and lotteries. With conclusion, notes, bibliography and index.
Explores Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace and the variety of goods to be purchased there, from foodstuffs to the acquisitions of antiquities and holy relics. The author looks at the whole spectrum of people shopping, men and women from all social classes. Examines the impact these findings had on urban spaces and Renaissance cities, on the sales at fairs, auctions and lotteries. With conclusion, notes, bibliography and index. Text in English
