Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Art, Medical Culture, and Mancini’s Critical Fortune

2 Illness, Health Preservation, and Recreation

3 From Exercise to Repose

4 For Beautiful, Healthy Children

5 Preserving the Civic Body

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

“A text that is exceptionally pleasant to read. All students of painting in Rome—and beyond—will need to take note of it.”

—David Cast, Renaissance Quarterly