Select an image or images pertaining to the course (16th-17th centuries). The i

Select an image or images pertaining to the course (16th-17th centuries). The image must deal with the human body but can take any viable theme or issue. Do consider multiple options by looking at images in London galleries, in the internet (Google images, or other image websites); consider images discussed in the course and in the scholarly literature.
2) Use the readings
– Katharine Park, ‘The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy’, in Renaissance Quarterly, 57 (1994), pp. 1-33.
Andrea Carlino, The book, the body, the scalpel, RES, 1988(find in JSTOR).
Daniela Bohde, ‘Skin and the Search for the Interior’, in Bodily Extremities, Ashgate, 2003.
Juliet Fleming, ‘The Renaissance Tatto’, in Written on the Body.
Giorgio Agamben, ‘Nudity’, in Nudities, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), 2011 pp. 55-90.
as a point of departure for further research. After finding and reading at least three sources of your own, define a specific issue, question or problem raised by the image, and formulate a way to explore this issue/question/problem
3) Write up this material in the form of an argument; the goals of your essay (what you are setting out to examine and why) should be explained at the start in the form of an introduction
4) In devising your argument, don’t forget that the visual aspects of the image should be central or at least addressed with care; in other words, your essay should include visual analysis of the image in question as an important part part of your evidence
5) Provide proper references (these should appear at the bottom of the page or at the end of the essay; NOT WITHIN THE TEXT) which substantiate your points and give credit to your sources. For a model of references of MHRA style
6) Provide a select bibliography that includes only those sources you have actually used.

****The essay must be 1,500 words in length, typed double-spaced, with proper paragraphs and footnotes and illustrated with photocopies of the images discussed in the text.