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Head-Baker : aspirations of human makeability in the fifteenth to the seventeenth century / Wendy Wauters ; translation Lisa Page.
Fine Arts Library ND673.3.H66 W3813 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wauters, Wendy.
- Series:
- Phoebus Focus ; XXXI.
- Phoebus Focus ; XXXI
- Standardized Title:
- Hoofdenbakker. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoofdenbakker (Painting : ca. 1600-1630).
- Art, Flemish--17th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Flemish.
- Belgium--Moral conditions--History--17th century.
- Belgium.
- Genre:
- Art criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 21 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Bruges : die Keure
- Place of Publication:
- [Antwerp] : Hannibal Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The Phoebus Foundation's collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title: Head-Baker. A baker's servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, is poised to decapitate the man sitting in front of him with a well-aimed swing. ... The mysterious title combined with the strange scene raises many questions. Was there really a baker running around decapitating his customers? Is the man administering a humiliating punishment, carrying out an early form of plastic surgery, or is something else going on?"--Page 9.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789464666465
- 9464666463
- OCLC:
- 1443871176
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