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Hands and Handling in Philibert de l’Orme’s TraitE DE L’ARCHITECTURE

 

This paper investigated the symbolic use of hands in Philbert de l’Orme’s idiosyncratic emblematology, and the language of ‘handling’, with its morally dubious connotations.