The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, Ca. 1500-1700 by Laurinda S. Dixon

The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, Ca. 1500-1700

Laurinda S. Dixon

264 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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In The Dark Side of Genius, Laurinda Dixon examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Once considered to have a physical and psychic disorder, the melancholic combined positive aspects of genius ...

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