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Face to Face with Johann Caspar Lavater
Author(s) -
Erle Sibylle
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00131.x
Subject(s) - physiognomy , face (sociological concept) , character (mathematics) , psychology , art , visual arts , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology , sociology , geometry , mathematics
At the end of the eighteenth century, Europe‐wide debates on the nature of man and the practice of interpreting visual artefacts centred on physiognomy, and specifically on one extraordinary, luxuriously illustrated work which claimed to map out how character could precisely be read in the human face: Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy .