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

254 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction art dark informative reflective medium-paced

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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 both a physical and psychic disorder, the melancholic combined positive aspects of ge...

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