TY - JOUR

T1 - The New Star, the New Nose: Tycho Brahe's Nasal Prosthesis

T2 - A Nosepiece for Peter

AU - Østermark-Johansen, Lene

PY - 2017/4/21

Y1 - 2017/4/21

N2 - Tycho Brahe’s loss of part of his nose in a duel has become an important part of his afterlife. The exact nature of his nasal prosthesis–of brass, gold, or silver–remains an enigma, not even solved at his exhumation in 2010. This essay discusses the materiality of Brahe’s new nose and contextualizes it within cutting-edge sixteenth-century rhinoplasty. The shiny nose, given fetish status by Freud in 1927, became an object of ridicule in seventeenth-century satire, but only Brahe knew how to link the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the heavenly and the earthly stars.

AB - Tycho Brahe’s loss of part of his nose in a duel has become an important part of his afterlife. The exact nature of his nasal prosthesis–of brass, gold, or silver–remains an enigma, not even solved at his exhumation in 2010. This essay discusses the materiality of Brahe’s new nose and contextualizes it within cutting-edge sixteenth-century rhinoplasty. The shiny nose, given fetish status by Freud in 1927, became an object of ridicule in seventeenth-century satire, but only Brahe knew how to link the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the heavenly and the earthly stars.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Tycho Brahe

KW - rhinoplasty

KW - nasology

KW - astronomy

KW - poetry

KW - satire

M3 - Journal article

VL - 12

SP - 93

EP - 105

JO - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies

JF - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies

SN - 2597-0143

ER -