| Description |
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Portrait types: Portrait series -- Group portraits -- Double portraits -- Single portraits -- Portrait drawings -- Portrait miniatures -- Shapes, supports, pigments, media -- Frames and covers -- Poses -- Settings, clothes and attributes -- The sitters -- The painters -- Portrait method -- The functions and uses of portraits -- Italy and 'the North' |
| Summary |
Explores the aesthetic, technical, social and economic aspects of Renaissance portrait-painting and offers a close examination of the works of artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo, Durer, Raphael, Holbein, and Titian. Draws on the writings and private correspondence of the painters and their patrons, and describes and analyzes the ways in which sitters were individualised, idealised and characterised--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Portrait painting, Renaissance.
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Portrait painting, European.
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Portrait painting, European -- 15th-16th centuries.
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Portrait painting, European. (OCoLC)fst01072208
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Portrait painting, Renaissance. (OCoLC)fst01072237
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Schilderkunst.
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Portretten.
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| Indexed Term |
Paintings Special subjects Portraits |
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Europe |
| ISBN |
0300046758 (hardcover) |
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9780300046755 (hardcover) |
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