Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye SPE25 including trade and diplomacy as

including trade and diplomacy as well as colonization and enslavement

with enlightening essays that discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches

music and dance

it embraces issues that expand the traditionally architecture-dominated understanding of urban conservation

Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye SPE25 including trade and diplomacy asEdited by Davide Gasparotto A thoughtful look at representations of people experiencing poverty in early modern Europe. The northern Italian artist Giacomo Ceruti (16981767) was born in Milan and active in Brescia and Bergamo. For his distinctive, large scale paintings of low income tradespeople and individuals experiencing homelessness, whom he portrayed with dignity and sympathy, Ceruti came to be known as Il Pitocchetto (the little beggar).