Physiognomy

Physiognomy English-Physiognomy is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality by his or her appearance, especially by face.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Broome and Dollar General kept their focus on fighting food insecurity and are pleased with ...
07/10/2021

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Broome and Dollar General kept their focus on fighting food insecurity and are pleased with the progress the mayor’s Geaux Get Healthy campaign has made.

Today, scholars are still studying the science of faces and how different traits, features, and expressions affect us. F...
01/10/2021

Today, scholars are still studying the science of faces and how different traits, features, and expressions affect us. For example, it’s well established that faces with rounded contours attract us, because they signal childlikeness and evoke parental instincts

Lavater often expressed an obvious cultural bias in his readings of the morality of people from other countries. “Lavate...
30/09/2021

Lavater often expressed an obvious cultural bias in his readings of the morality of people from other countries. “Lavater idealizes the familiar and praises what he knows,” wrote one critic, “but finds ‘deficiencies’ in the faces of Africans, Laplanders, and Calmuck Tartars.”

In the second half of the 18th century, Johann Caspar Lavater became the new king of physiognomy. He blended an examinat...
30/09/2021

In the second half of the 18th century, Johann Caspar Lavater became the new king of physiognomy. He blended an examination of silhouette, the profile, portraiture, and proportions into his best-selling book, Essays on Physiognomy, which included a detailed reading of the face broken down into its major pieces, including the eyes, brows, mouth, and nose.

He made an analogy to the human essence, suggesting that one could deduce an individual’s character from empirical obser...
29/09/2021

He made an analogy to the human essence, suggesting that one could deduce an individual’s character from empirical observation of his physical features. His widely disseminated book on the subject, De humana physiognomia, was instrumental in spreading physiognomy throughout Europe

David Brafman, rare books curator at the Getty Research Institute, told me that physiognomy—from the ancient Greek, gnom...
29/09/2021

David Brafman, rare books curator at the Getty Research Institute, told me that physiognomy—from the ancient Greek, gnomos (character) and physis (nature), hence “the character of one’s nature”—really became popular again in 16th-century Europe, as physicians, philosophers, and scientists searched for tangible, external clues to internal temperaments.

What do the expressions “highbrow” and “lowbrow” have in common with saying a woman has “mousey” features? What does Hom...
28/09/2021

What do the expressions “highbrow” and “lowbrow” have in common with saying a woman has “mousey” features? What does Homer Simpson have to do with photographs of sculpture in profile by contemporary artist Ken Gonzales-Day? All are contemporary manifestations of an ancient pseudoscience that permeated visual culture in European history, notably in the 18th and 19th centuries: physiognomy.

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