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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"olfactory history"”.
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
… Mediated through the minds of their recorders, olfactory accounts vividly reveal hitherto overlooked patterns of the beliefs and ideas that people in medieval China had on the human person, their surrounding world, as well as the unseen realms of the dead and divine. This study traces historical …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
… held. As research into representations of the olfactory is a relatively novel approach in the History of Art, this thesis proposes a methodology for identifying and interpreting visual allusions to smell. It draws together some of the most compelling cases of manifestations of smell in the art …