The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum and drawstring waist

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Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species

and underarm vents

especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Boyle looks at real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum and drawstring waistBy Stephen Perkinson With contributions from Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, and Emma Solberg. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 through November 26, 2017. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions