Research Catalog

Title

Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Manuth, Volker
• Leeuwen, Rudie van
• Koldeweij, A. M.

Description

315 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm.

Summary

The present collection of essays on the subject of the portrait historié 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 historié 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 appropriates and incorporates visual metaphors by means of allegorisation and identification. This book is the result of a research project of the Art History Department in collaboration with the Archaeology Department of the Faculty of Arts of the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Series Statement

Nijmegen art historical studies ; XXII

Uniform Title

Nijmegen art historical studies ; 22.

Alternative Title

Aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present

Subject

• Portraits, European
• Self-portraits, European

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, Olivier Hekster). Part II. Representation and presence in the medieval portrait historié. In the Guise of a Christian: the Early Medieval Preliminary Stage of the Portrait Historié (Kees Veelenturf) ; Likeness and Presence in the Age before the Portrait Historié (Kees van der Ploeg) ; In the Mirror of Christian Antiquity: Early Papal Identification Portraits in Santa Maria Maggiore (Sible de Blaauw) ; Hippolyte de Berthoz by Dirk Bouts and Hugo van der Goes: A Patron as Martyr (Jos Koldeweij). Part III. Identification and translocation in the early modern portrait historié. Mary of Burgundy or Margaret of Austria: A search for the true identity of the Mary Magdalene from Chantilly (Weineke Weusten) ; The portrait historié in Passion scenes in Renaissance Italy (Bram de Klerck) ; Moses and the Israelites by Maerten de Vos: the portrait historié of the Panhuys family from 1574 (Rudie van Leeuwen) ; Dutch Artists as Saints. Aspects of the Self-portrait historié (Volker Manuth) ; Harnessed Heroes: Mars, the Title-page, and the Dutch Stadtholders (Jeroen Goudeau). Part IV. Guises and social masks in the modern portrait historié. A homemade tribute: Pierre Cuypers (1827-1921) on the throne of Rembrandt van Rijn (Jean-Pierre van Rijen) ; 'Everything is in one's own self...': On the 'Mask Portraits' of Bauhaus Artist Gertrud Arndt (Dörte Nicolaisen) ; Portrait historié or pure painting? Kasimir Malevich's Self-portrait with Black Square (1933) (Lieske Tibbe) ; King, Saint, Revolutionary: Joseph Beuys' Palazzo Regale as Portrait Historié (Wouter Weijers) ; I is an other: Philip Guston's imagined incarnations of God and Klansmen (Mette Gieskes)

Call Number

JQF 21-725

ISBN

• 9782503568164
• 2503568165

LCCN

2017287560

OCLC

947815965

Title

Example or alter ego? : aspects of the portrait historié in Western art from Antiquity to the present / edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, Jos Koldewij.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Nijmegen art historical studies ; XXII

Nijmegen art historical studies ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.

Added Author

Manuth, Volker, editor.

Leeuwen, Rudie van, editor.

Koldeweij, A. M., editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-725