Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover
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Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking skin.
Facing Decay systematically examines early modern visual art, anti-aging recipes, and a range of other writings to investigate the period's obsession with youth and beauty--and the corollary...
Erin Griffey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland. She is the author of On Display: Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence at the Stuart Court and editor of Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women.
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