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title: THE GIOPPINO FAMILY

subject date: 2004-08-26

caption: GOITH Gioppino's family is having polenta for lunch. A herring is dropped from above into the center of the table, hanging from a string, on which each person rubs their slice of polenta to flavor it. All the members of the family suffer from goiter, a benign increase in the volume of the thyroid gland. The image ironizes on a real problem that afflicts poor populations, affected by this pathology resulting from a diet lacking in iodine, typical of continental or mountainous areas, far from the sea; Gioppino is in fact the Bergamo mask, with his wife Margì and the whole family. Chromolithographic postcard, Italy, late 19th century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 32728

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: XIX

subject epoch: Ottocento

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 4232

file name: FSNgilardi_32728.jpg

keywords

Little JoppinMargigoiterstrumathyroidendocrinologyendemic goitersickmedicinepovertyfamilyherringpolentasupplymaternitypaternitymiserypovertymalnutritioniodinechopping boardcorncorncivilizationLombardyBergamoItalyKingdom of Italy