The Embedded Portrait : Giotto, Giottino, Angelico

Christopher S. Wood

ISBN 10: 069124426X / ISBN 13: 9780691244266

Editore: Princeton University Press Nov 2023, 2023

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• Titolo: The Embedded Portrait : Giotto, Giottino, Angelico
• Editore: Princeton University Press Nov 2023
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 069124426X
• ISBN 13: 9780691244266
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 274 L x 199 A x 30 P (millimetri) 274 millimetri di larghezza per 199 millimetri di altezza per 30 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1528 grammi

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Riassunto

A new study of the early Renaissance portrait

In fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men—not only clergy but also laity—introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared space with the holy narratives. The portraits mimicked the first worshippers of Christ: Mary, the Three Magi, Mary Magdalene. At the same time, they modeled, for modern viewers, ideal involvement in the emotion-laden stories. In The Embedded Portrait, Christopher S. Wood traces these incursions of the real and profane into Florentine sacred painting between Giotto and Fra Angelico.

The portraits not only intruded upon a sacred space, but also intervened in an artwork. The pressure exerted by the modern interlopers—their lives and experiences, implied by their portraits—threatened the formal closure that had served as a powerful symbolic form of the pact between God and humans. The Embedded Portrait reconstructs this art historical drama from the point of view of the artists rather than the patrons. Following clues left by Vasari, the book assigns a leading role to the painter Giottino, or “little Giotto.” Little-known today but highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of painting that was later realized by Fra Angelico through his own innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait.

Seeking not to stabilize the artworks but to extend their reach, the interpretations offered in The Embedded Portrait re-create and update the psychic and libidinal energies that gave rise to these works in the first place.

Informazioni sull?autore

Christopher S. Wood is professor in the Department of German at New York University. He is the author of A History of Art History (Princeton); Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape; and Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art. He is also the author, with Alexander Nagel, of Anachronic Renaissance.