Description: Petrarch and Sixteenth-century Italian Portraiture, Hardcover by Bernocchi, Ilaria (EDT); Morelli, Nicolò (EDT); Pich, Federica (EDT), ISBN 9463727248, ISBN-13 9789463727242, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 1. FOCUS ON PORTRAITURE: A genre explored in many brilliant exhibitions around the world (not least the most recent ones on Giovan Battista Moroni at The Frick Collection in New York and the one on Lorenzo Lotto's portraiture at The National Gallery in London), portraiture is less frequently the subject of ambitious and wide-ranging scholarly inquiry. The volume aims at transcending a single artist's oeuvre and bringing portraiture back to the centre of the analysis, exploring its conceptual links to literary genres like lyric poetry and biography, its active role in defining and communicating a modern understanding of the individual, and its crucial place in early-modern visual culture. 2. INTERDISCIPLINARITY: The volume is founded on the interdisciplinary collaboration between art and literary historians and consistently pursues this scope by maintaining a balance between the chapters, as well as by ensuring that each contributor considers their topic also from the 'other' point of view. Authors are invited to go at the heart of the reciprocal influence between art and literature, ensuring a consistent and coherent approach throughout th. 3. EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARSHIP: The early-career stage of most contributors ensures the timely and innovative quality of the work. The volume aims at introducing a new generation of scholars and presenting the main threads of the present and future research on the subject. The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy. Petrarch’s vast literary production influenced the intellectual framework in which new models of representation and self-representation developed during the Renaissance. His two sonnets on Laura’s portrait by Simone Martini and his ambivalent fascination with the illusionary power of portraiture in his Latin texts — such as the Secretum, the Familiares and De remediis utriusque fortune — constituted the theoretical reference for artists and writers alike. In a century dominated by the rhetorical comparison between art and literature (ut pictura poësis) and by the paragone debate, the interplay between Petrarch’s oeuvre, Petrarchism and portraiture shaped the discourse on the relationship between the sitters’ physical image and their inner life. The volume brings together diverse interdisciplinary contributions that explore the subject through a rich body of literary and visual sources.
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Book Title: Petrarch and Sixteenth-century Italian Portraiture
Number of Pages: 278 Pages
Publication Name: Petrarch and Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture
Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Renaissance, Subjects & Themes / Portraits, General, History / Renaissance
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art
Author: Nicolò Morelli
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Ser.
Format: Hardcover
