King's Digital Lab

Renaissance Skin RENSKIN

In the painting, a butchered pig hangs in the foreground, its ribs exposed, while a child in the background blows into a pig’s bladder beside a severed head.
The Slaughtered Pig (1662), Caspar Netscher

Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Renaissance Skin project used an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to study changing notions of human and animal skin in Europe between 1450-1700. In building a website to present their research topics and activities, KDL tried to integrate the important project theme of skin as both porous and a barrier into the overall design itself.

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