Portrait Cultures Early Modern Cardinahb
Portrait Cultures Early Modern Cardinahb

Author: Brooke BAKER-BATES

Publisher: Visual and Material Culture

Published: 2021-07-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9789463725514

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The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analysed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. No more profound investigation of these as a specific category of object has ever been attempted. This volume addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status of the cardinal portrait, covering diverse geographies and varied media. Examining the development of cardinals' imagery in terms of their multi-layered identities, this volume considers portraits of 'princes of the Church' as a specific cultural phenomenon reflecting cardinals' unique social and political position.

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

Author: Daniel Kramer

Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780806512242

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John Smibert
John Smibert

Author: Richard H. Saunders

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780300042580

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Saunder's explores Smibert's early Scottish and London training as well as his travels in Italy; his portrait practice in London; his arrival in America and his stylistic development; the creation of "The Bermuda Group"; and the business of portrait painting in Boston.

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy
Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy

Author: Ornat Lev-er

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 9048541131

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Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.

Ingres and the Studio
Ingres and the Studio

Author: Sarah E. Betzer

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780271048758

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An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.

Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Portrait of a Woman in Silk

Author: Zara Anishanslin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0300220553

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Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.

Portraiture and Photography in Africa
Portraiture and Photography in Africa

Author: John Peffer

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0253008727

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Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.

Face to Face
Face to Face

Author: Robin Margaret Jensen

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Examining how God and eventually Christ are portrayed in early Christian art, Jensen explores questions of the relationship between art and theology, conflicts over idolatry and iconography, and how the Christological controversies affected the portrayals of Christ.