Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance

Author: Touba Ghadessi

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1580442765

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At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.

Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art
Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art

Author: Mary Rogers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1351777696

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Originally published in 2000. Fashioning Identities analyses some of the different ways in which identities were fashioned in and with art during the Renaissance, taken as meaning the period c.1300-1600. The notion of such a search for new identities, expressed in a variety of new themes, styles and genres, has been all-pervasive in the historical and critical literature dealing with the period, starting with Burckhardt, and it has been given a new impetus by contemporary scholarship using a variety of methodological approaches. The identities involved are those of patrons, for whom artistic patronage was a means of consolidating power, projecting ideologies, acquiring social prestige or building a suitable public persona; and artists, who developed a distinctive manner to fashion their artistic identity, or drew attention to aspects of their artistic personality either in self portraiture, or the style and placing of their signature, or by exploiting a variety of literary forms.

The Renaissance Portrait
The Renaissance Portrait

Author: Patricia Lee Rubin

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1588394255

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.