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Description

1. 335 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm.

Summary

1. Significant innovations in portraiture occurred during the transitional period from the end of the sixteenth-century to the early seventeenth-century in Rome. Portraits by Annibale Carracci, Valentin de Boulogne, Anthony van Dyck, Simon Vouet and Gianlorenzo Bernini display a loosening of formality and a trend towards movement. These artists produced a portrait type that was more inclusive of the viewer, more communicative, more revealing of a private face. The portraits in this study were less likely to celebrate achievements, family or social standing, titles, rank or station. Instead they portray individuals who exist apart from their professional personae. They reveal unique and characteristic traits of their subjects captured at a particular moment in time. They used subtle affetti, painting technique and colour to express mood and atmosphere and evoke the presence of the sitter. The sitters include poets, courtiers, buffoons and the artists themselves, and each composition is attentive to the thoughts, emotions and imaginative life of the individuals

Series statement

1. Irreplaceable Portraits : studies on portraiture from the medieval to the contemporary ; 2

Uniform title

1. Irreplaceable portraits ; 2.

Alternative title

1. Portraits of the soul : painters and sitters in early seventeenth-century Rome

Subject

1. 1500-1699
2. Portrait painting, European
3. Portrait painting, Baroque
4. Self-portraits > Italy > Rome
5. Portraits, European > Pictorial works
6. Self-portraits
7. Portraits, European
8. Italy > Rome

Genre/Form

1. Pictorial works.

Call number

1. JQF 24-797

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-259) and indexes.

Language (note)

1. Includes quotations in Italian in "Notes."

Author

1. Theiler, Esther, author.

Title

1. Painters and sitters in early seventeenth-century Rome : portraits of the soul / Esther Theiler.

Publisher

1. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2023]

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Irreplaceable Portraits : studies on portraiture from the medieval to the contemporary ; 2
2. Irreplaceable portraits ; 2.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-259) and indexes.

Language

1. Includes quotations in Italian in "Notes."

Chronological term

1. 1500-1699

ISBN

1. 9782503590837 hardcover ; acid-free paper
2. 2503590837 hardcover ; acid-free paper

Research call number

1. JQF 24-797