Modelling the Individual : : Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance.

• Superior document: DQR Studies in Literature
• TeilnehmendeR: de Jong-Crane, Betsy.; Liebregts, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1998.; ©1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)

A collection of essays concerning the nature of Renaissance biographies and portraits, which contextualise the works in order to understand their contemporary significance.

Table of Contents

Karl ENENKEL and Peter LIEBREGTS: Introduction. -- Karl ENENKEL: Modelling the Humanist: Petrarch's Letter to Posterity and Boccaccio's Biography of the Poet Laureate. -- Anton W.A. BOSCHLOO: Perceptions of the Status of Painting: The Self-Portrait in the Art of the Italian Renaissance. -- Jan L. de JONG: Portraits of Condottieri. -- Wolfgang NEUBER: The Red Indian's Body: The Physiognomy of the Indigenous American between Exoticism and Learned Culture in the Early Modern Period. -- Sonia V. ROSE: The Great Moctezuma: A Literary Portrait in Sixteenth-Century Spanish American Historiography. -- Anne C.E. van GALEN: Body and Self-Image in the Autobiography of Gerolamo Cardano. -- Paul J. SMITH: Rabelais' Pantagruel and Gargantua as Mock-Biographies. -- Eric Jan SLUIJTER: The Painter's Pride: The Art of Capturing Transience in Self-Portraits from Isaac van Swanenburgh to David Bailly. -- Frans R.E. BLOM: What Has Been My Weight on Earth: The Autobiography of Constantijn Huygens. -- Anton J.E. HARMSEN: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Biographies of Dutch Poets. -- Karl ENENKEL: A Critical Edition of Petrarch's Epistola Posteritati with an English Translation. -- Notes on Contributors. -- Index of Names. -- Index of Subjects. -- Index of Petrarch's Epistola Posteritati.