Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits
This study examines portraits produced by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) and the pictorial, aesthetic and cultural sources from which they both emerged and departed. Scorel's five group portraits depicting members of the Utrecht and Haarlem Brotherhoods of Jerusalem pilgrim...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
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| description | This study examines portraits produced by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) and the pictorial, aesthetic and cultural sources from which they both emerged and departed. Scorel's five group portraits depicting members of the Utrecht and Haarlem Brotherhoods of Jerusalem pilgrims (c. 1524-1541) are unique in his oeuvre and furnished a template for his later portrait practice and innovations. Considering equally technical aspects of manufacture and the social dimension of function and reception, Scorel's portraits are shown to participate in vanguard concepts of art and humanism around 1500. Furthermore, the later prestige accorded to Scorel’s portraits, by scholars such as Alois Riegl and Max Friedländer, contributes to a historiography which can help reevaluate Scorel’s crucial place in art historical discourse. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f104da37a9e1490a9a7fc3caad3235c92022-12-22T01:11:17ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522017-12-011717AG1Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraitsAlbert Godycki 0Courtauld InstituteThis study examines portraits produced by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) and the pictorial, aesthetic and cultural sources from which they both emerged and departed. Scorel's five group portraits depicting members of the Utrecht and Haarlem Brotherhoods of Jerusalem pilgrims (c. 1524-1541) are unique in his oeuvre and furnished a template for his later portrait practice and innovations. Considering equally technical aspects of manufacture and the social dimension of function and reception, Scorel's portraits are shown to participate in vanguard concepts of art and humanism around 1500. Furthermore, the later prestige accorded to Scorel’s portraits, by scholars such as Alois Riegl and Max Friedländer, contributes to a historiography which can help reevaluate Scorel’s crucial place in art historical discourse.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/godycki.pdfportraitureNorthern renaissanceJan van ScorelErasmusAlois RieglMax Friedländer |
| spellingShingle | Albert Godycki Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits Journal of Art Historiography portraiture Northern renaissance Jan van Scorel Erasmus Alois Riegl Max Friedländer |
| title | Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits |
| title_full | Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits |
| title_fullStr | Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits |
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| title_short | Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits |
| title_sort | countenances of the deepest attentiveness the historical reputation of jan van scorel s portraits |
| topic | portraiture Northern renaissance Jan van Scorel Erasmus Alois Riegl Max Friedländer |
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