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HUMAN SCALE / Body, gesture & creative attention
Physiognomy & metoposcopy.
Historical systems that attributed character, fate or other meanings to bodily appearance, especially facial and forehead features.
LEXICON / LANGUAGE & MEANING
Names in context.
- Physiognomy
- Fisiognomía
Historical interpretation of outward features as supposed signs of character or fate.
- Metoposcopy
- Metoposcopia
Historical readings of forehead lines and markings.
PROVENANCE & INTERPRETATIONA practice,
A practice,
a setting.
Early modern manuscripts preserve elaborate correspondences for faces and forehead lines. They are documented here as historical claims; appearance does not establish a person’s character, honesty, health or destiny.
FIELD NOTE / METHOD
Keep a record.
- Select a dated historical diagram or text and identify its author.
- Describe the diagram’s categories and the claims the author makes.
- Compare the historical vocabulary without applying character judgments to a living person.
POTPOURRI / PHOTO GUIDE
What to include.
- Use a permitted image of the historical page with its caption and page number.
- Provide a close view of the diagram’s labels and its catalog reference.
POTPOURRI / PERSONAL INTERPRETATION
Photo instructions & submission ↗Share a photograph or a record.
A photograph, drawing or dated record can be sent privately for a personal reading. Include the procedure and the question.