The Portrait in the Renaissance / / John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.) :; 330 b/w illus.

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historiansIn this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated, a concept first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- I The Cult of Personality -- II Humanism and the Portrait -- III The Motions of the Mind -- IV The Court Portrait -- V Image and Emblem -- VI Donor and Participant -- Notes -- Index