Head-Baker: Aspirations of Human Makeability in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
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by Wendy Wauters (Author)
The Phoebus Foundation’s collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title: Head-Baker. A baker’s servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, is poised to decapitate the man sitting in front of him with a well-aimed swing. The mysterious title combined with the strange scene raises many questions. Was there really a baker running around decapitating his customers? Is the man administering a humiliating punishment, carrying out an early form of plastic surgery, or is something else going on?
- Publisher : Hannibal Books
- Publication date : 1 Feb. 2023
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 9464666463
- ISBN-13 : 978-9464666465
- Item weight : 300 g