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The art of poverty: Irony and ideal in sixteenth-century beggar imagery

The art of poverty: Irony and ideal in sixteenth-century beggar imagery

Hardcover

Art HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0719075823
ISBN13: 9780719075827
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.93
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.99 Depth: 9.53
Language: English
The art of poverty is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising.

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