THE LIKENESS OF THE KING : A PREHISTORY OF PORTRAITURE IN LATE MEDIEVAL FRANCE

PERKINSON, STEPHEN

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ISBN:978-0-226-65879-7
EAN:9780226658797
Editorial: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Fecha de la edición:2009
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:338
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Unwilling to accept the anachronistic nature of these claims, Perkinson both resists and complicates grand narratives of portraiture art that ignore historical context. Focusing on the Valois court of France, he argues that local practice prompted shifts in the late medieval understanding of how images could represent individuals and prompted artists and patrons to deploy likeness in a variety of ways. Through an examination of well-known images of the fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century kings of France, as well as largely overlooked objects such as wax votive figures and royal seals, Perkinson demonstrates that the changes evident in these images do not constitute a revolutionary break with the past, but instead were continuous with late medieval representational traditions.