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Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present

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Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present - Manuth, Volker (Editor), and Van Leeuwen, Rudie (Editor), and Koldeweij, Jos (Editor)
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The present collection of essays on the subject of the portrait historie treats examples of this subgenre of portraiture stemming from Classical Antiquity, medieval times, the Renaissance and Baroque period, but also from Romantic era and the modern movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A portrait historie can be described as an artistic rendering of an individual in the guise of a historical figure. In a broader and more modern sense it can be understood as a representation or figuration of the self which ...

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Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present 2016, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout

ISBN-13: 9782503568164

Hardcover