The University of Michigan
The Rhetorics and
Rituals of (Un)veiling
in Early Modern Europe
The Exhibition
An exhibition organized in conjunction with the conference will explore the theme of the naked and clothed human figure in pictorial representation between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, tracing the body as a model and as an object of knowledge within fields as diverse as medicine, theology, natural science, geography and exploration (including early ethnography), and the humanities.
The exhibition will explore how the body in European artistic traditions is not an autonomous ideal, but informs and is itself informed by other traditions of knowledge which are themselves devoted to the normative and "harmonious" human figure.
Prints and drawings by artists ranging from Dürer to Goya will be shown alongside anatomical images, costume books, allegorical frontispieces and atlases.
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