Likeness of the King - A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France

Zusammenfassung 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'.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Perkinson, Perkinson Stephen, Stephen Perkinson
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780226658797
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65879-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; France, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, ART / European, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Portraits in art, Medieval style, Portraits and self-portraiture in art, ART / History / European / Medieval