Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer & History.(Reviews)(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer & History. By James S. Olson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. x plus 302 pp.).

In 1967, while touring the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Italian surgeon and art aficionado T.C. Greco noticed discoloration and swelling in the breast of the naked figure of Bathsheba in Rembrant's painting, Bathsheba at Her Bath. Intrigued, Greco researched the existing sources on the genesis of the painting and discovered that Rembrandt's model for the figure, who was his mistress, had died after a long illness. As a result of his research, Greco ...

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