The New Star, the New Nose: Tycho Brahe's Nasal Prosthesis: A Nosepiece for Peter
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The New Star, the New Nose: Tycho Brahe's Nasal Prosthesis : A Nosepiece for Peter. / Østermark-Johansen, Lene.
I: Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies , Bind 12, 21.04.2017, s. 93-105.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The New Star, the New Nose: Tycho Brahe's Nasal Prosthesis
T2 - A Nosepiece for Peter
AU - Østermark-Johansen, Lene
PY - 2017/4/21
Y1 - 2017/4/21
N2 - Tycho Brahe’s loss of part of his nose in a duel has become an important part of his afterlife. The exact nature of his nasal prosthesis–of brass, gold, or silver–remains an enigma, not even solved at his exhumation in 2010. This essay discusses the materiality of Brahe’s new nose and contextualizes it within cutting-edge sixteenth-century rhinoplasty. The shiny nose, given fetish status by Freud in 1927, became an object of ridicule in seventeenth-century satire, but only Brahe knew how to link the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the heavenly and the earthly stars.
AB - Tycho Brahe’s loss of part of his nose in a duel has become an important part of his afterlife. The exact nature of his nasal prosthesis–of brass, gold, or silver–remains an enigma, not even solved at his exhumation in 2010. This essay discusses the materiality of Brahe’s new nose and contextualizes it within cutting-edge sixteenth-century rhinoplasty. The shiny nose, given fetish status by Freud in 1927, became an object of ridicule in seventeenth-century satire, but only Brahe knew how to link the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the heavenly and the earthly stars.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Tycho Brahe
KW - rhinoplasty
KW - nasology
KW - astronomy
KW - poetry
KW - satire
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 93
EP - 105
JO - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies
JF - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies
SN - 2597-0143
ER -
ID: 176797399