Was Plato too fat?
Rosemary Hill: The Stuff of Life, 10 October 2019
Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
by Christopher Forth.
Reaktion, 352 pp., £25, March 2019,978 1 78914 062 0 Show More
by Christopher Forth.
Reaktion, 352 pp., £25, March 2019,
“... ability to command a flattering reflection. If anyone thought that at 54 inches around the waist, Henry VIII was fat, they thought twice about saying so and in Holbein’s portraits of the king his bulk is translated into an image of monumentality and strength. The female pharaoh Hatshepsut was portrayed in sculpture as slender with delicate features. The ... ”