Reconsidering the origins of portraiture: introduction
This introductory essay discusses central issues of European portraiture in the period of its decisive transformation in the later Middle Ages. Starting with the notion of an individual in the Middle Ages it moves on to consider means of pictorial representation of men in the High and later Middle A...
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| description | This introductory essay discusses central issues of European portraiture in the period of its decisive transformation in the later Middle Ages. Starting with the notion of an individual in the Middle Ages it moves on to consider means of pictorial representation of men in the High and later Middle Ages, and to reflect on portraits’ power to make an absent man present. All these issues are considered based on Central European examples, namely, portraits of Casimir the Great, the king of Poland; those of Charles IV, the holy roman emperor and king of Bohemia, and a celebrated portrait of Rudolph IV, the archduke of Austria, thus stressing their relevance to the development of early modern portraiture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b86c5259a1644f7baadacff7e13af7972022-12-22T00:36:51ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522017-12-011717GW1Reconsidering the origins of portraiture: introductionMateusz Grzęda 0Marek Walczak 1Jagiellonian UniversityJagiellonian UniversityThis introductory essay discusses central issues of European portraiture in the period of its decisive transformation in the later Middle Ages. Starting with the notion of an individual in the Middle Ages it moves on to consider means of pictorial representation of men in the High and later Middle Ages, and to reflect on portraits’ power to make an absent man present. All these issues are considered based on Central European examples, namely, portraits of Casimir the Great, the king of Poland; those of Charles IV, the holy roman emperor and king of Bohemia, and a celebrated portrait of Rudolph IV, the archduke of Austria, thus stressing their relevance to the development of early modern portraiture.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/gw-introduction1.pdfportraiturerepresentationindividuallikenessMiddle AgesRenaissanceCentral Europe |
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