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Icons of Longevity - Luxdorph's Eighteenth Century Gallery of Long-Livers (Hardcover)
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Icons of Longevity - Luxdorph's Eighteenth Century Gallery of Long-Livers (Hardcover)
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Bolle Willum Luxdorph, who lived from 1716-1788, was the first Dane
known to have studied the phenomenon of old age. Luxdorph was a
high-ranking Danish civil servant, a leader of the Danish
Chancellery, as well as a scholar and poet. In the last years of
his life, Luxdorph created an art collection of paintings of older
people ("long-livers"). The exact date at which Luxdorph began
taking an interest in the phenomenon of old age is not known, but
it must have happened sometime in the late 1770s. At this point,
Luxdorph began systematically collecting data concerning very old
people (i.e. persons who had reached the age of 80 and over). This
book examines Luxdorph's collection, which has a triple-source
value in terms of the history of art, the history of civilization,
and the history of science. Both the reconstruction and the
availability of the collection hold specific contemporary and
general importance for: the illustration of very old men and women,
the development of research on ageing, and the associated
socio-cultural topics. Moreover, the collection represents an
encyclopedic interest, the passion to collect, and the origin of
science-orientated collections, as they became characteristic in
18th-century Europe.
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