Since antique times, dwarfs have been commonly employed at court, mostly as servants, entertainers, or personal attendants upon noble women and noblemen. Their presence at European Renaissance courts was very common, as demonstrated by their presence alongside to their masters or mistress in several artworks of that period. Aim of our paper is to derive clinical information regarding the type of dwarfism affecting people living and acting at European courts from an overview of paintings dating fifteenth to the eighteenth century. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Guaraldi, F., Prencipe, N., Gori, D., Di Giacomo, S., Ghigo, E., Grottoli, S. (2012). Court dwarfs: An overview of European paintings from fifteenth to eighteenth century. ENDOCRINE, 42(3), 736-738 [10.1007/s12020-012-9708-x].
Court dwarfs: An overview of European paintings from fifteenth to eighteenth century
Guaraldi, Federica;Gori, Davide;
2012
Abstract
Since antique times, dwarfs have been commonly employed at court, mostly as servants, entertainers, or personal attendants upon noble women and noblemen. Their presence at European Renaissance courts was very common, as demonstrated by their presence alongside to their masters or mistress in several artworks of that period. Aim of our paper is to derive clinical information regarding the type of dwarfism affecting people living and acting at European courts from an overview of paintings dating fifteenth to the eighteenth century. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
