Magiatore del braccio
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Magiatore del braccio (Man Eating His Arm) is a painting by Bartolomeo Passarotti. According to On Ugliness, it is in a private collection. It recalls other instances of self-cannibalism in the arts such as Xavier Forneret's poem "Un pauvre honteux".
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