True frontal alopecia in 17th-century paintings
2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 38; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.clindermatol.2020.04.002
ISSN1879-1131
AutoresÁngel Fernández-Flores, Olga Marqués Serrano, Salvio Serrano, Eduardo Fonseca,
Tópico(s)Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
ResumoPaintings often show women with a clearance of the frontal hairline. We previously remarked how this was a form of pseudoalopecia that was voluntarily caused by women who shaved the frontal part of their hair for fashionable and esthetic reasons. In this paper, we emphasize in a second set of paintings showing a true alopecia that was caused by traction of the hair due to a tight hairstyle and was culturally favored in the 17th century.
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