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Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750
Real, Imagined, Metaphorical
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Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750
Real, Imagined, Metaphorical
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : Giants and Dwarfs as Real, Imagined, and Metaphorical Entities
- Part I Northern Climes
- 1. Out of Scale: Naming and Identity of Late Medieval Giants
- 2. St. Christopher the Giant : Imagining the Sublime in Fifteenth-Century South Tyrol
- 3. Giants as Primordial Ancestors in Sixteenth-Century Art and Poetry
- 4. A Champion large of portratour: Robert the Bruce as “Giant” in Anti- Tudor Propaganda
- 5. Giants and Dwarfs in the Tyrolean Courts : Documents, Portraits, and the Kunst- und Wunderkammer at Schloss Ambras
- 6. A Model Christian and “Child of God” : A German Court Dwarf and His Funeral Sermon
- Part II Spain and Italy
- 7. Ordinary Marvels: The Case of Dwarf Attendants in Habsburg Spain
- 8. A Ducal Dwarf, Military Prowess , and a Portrait in the Farnese Dynastic Collection
- 9. Per mano della Maria Nana: A Female Dwarf in the Retinue of Eleonora di Toledo
- 10. Dwarfs and Giants in Early Modern Caricature
- 11. “Biancone”: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Rise of a Popular Nickname
- Index