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Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Paperback)
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Picturing the Lame in Italian Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Paperback)
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The presence of the orthopedically impaired body in art is so
pervasive that, paradoxically, it has failed to attract the
attention of most art historians. In Picturing the Lame in Italian
Art from Antiquity to the Modern Era, Livio Pestilli investigates
the changing meaning that images of individuals with limited
mobility acquired through the centuries. This study evinces that in
distinct opposition to the practice of classical artists, who
manifested a lack of interest in the subject of lameness since it
was considered 'a defect or a deformity' and deformity a 'want of
measure, which is always unsightly,' their Early Christian
counterparts depicted them profusely, because images of the
miraculous healing of the lame became the reassuring sign of
universal acceptance and the promise of a more equitable existence
in this life or the next. In the Middle Ages, instead, when
voluntary poverty came to be associated with the necessary
condition of faithfulness to Christ, the indigent lame, along with
others who were forced to beg for a living, became the image of the
alter Christus. This view was to change in the Renaissance and
Baroque periods, when, with the resurgence of classical and Pauline
ideals that condemned the idle, representations of the
orthopedically impaired became associated with swindlers,
freeloaders and parasites. This fascinating story came basically to
an end in the Eighteenth century when, with the revival of the
Greek ideal of the Beautiful, the lame gradually left center stage
to be relegated again to the margins of the visual arts.
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