Figures des passions: La pathognomonie de Charles Le Brun (original) (raw)

History and Anthropology, 1984

Abstract

King Louis XIV's official painter, Charles Le Brun, elaborated two models of “reading”; the body. The first one, inspired by the ancient physiognomists, surveys the analogies between human and animal features. The other, ushering in a modern pathognomy partly inspired ...

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