Georges de La Tour's Flea-Catcher and the Iconography of the Flea-Hunt in Seventeenth-Century Baroque Art

This essay performs a comprehensive investigation of the thematic possibilities for Georges de La Tour's Flea-Catcher (1630s-1640s) based on related artworks, religion, and emblematic, literary, and pseudo-scientific texts that may have had a bearing on it. The results of my research are groupe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bergeron, Crissy
Other Authors: Darius Spieth
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2007
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112007-165514/