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The Likeness of the King
Stephen Perkinson
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Description for The Likeness of the King
Hardcover. Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Num Pages: 400 pages, 96 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; ACK; AGHF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Anyone who has strolled through the halls of a museum knows that portraits occupy a central place in the history of art. But did portraits, as such, exist in the medieval era? "The Likeness of the King" challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of recent scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Unwilling to accept the anachronistic nature of these claims, Stephen Perkinson both resists and complicates grand narratives of portraiture art that ignore historical context. Focusing on the Valois court of ... Read more
Anyone who has strolled through the halls of a museum knows that portraits occupy a central place in the history of art. But did portraits, as such, exist in the medieval era? "The Likeness of the King" challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of recent scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'. Unwilling to accept the anachronistic nature of these claims, Stephen Perkinson both resists and complicates grand narratives of portraiture art that ignore historical context. Focusing on the Valois court of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226658797
SKU
V9780226658797
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About Stephen Perkinson
Stephen Perkinson is associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College.
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