Modelling the Individual : : Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance.
A collection of essays concerning the nature of Renaissance biographies and portraits, which contextualise the works in order to understand their contemporary significance.
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| Superior document: | DQR Studies in Literature |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1998. ©1998. |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | DQR Studies in Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
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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.