Author: Wendy Wauters
Title: Head-Baker, Aspirations of Human Makeability in the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century/ Phoebus Focus XXXI:
Description: Phoebus Focus XXXI, PB+, 210 x 146 mm, 96 pages ENG edition Illustrated. ISBN 9789464666434. ¶ The Phoebus Foundation's collection includes an unusual painting which has an equally unusual title: Head-Baker. A baker's servant, frozen in motion, with his cleaver raised high in the air, is poised to decapitate the man sitting in front of him with a well-aimed swing. The mysterious title combined with the strange scene raises many questions. Was there really a baker running around decapitating his customers? Is the man administering a humiliating punishment, carrying out an early form of plastic surgery, or is something else going on?.

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