“Ritratto al Naturale”: Questions of Realism and Idealism in Early Renaissance Portraits
1987; College Art Association; Volume: 46; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1987.10792364
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Resumo"Provide me with a painter whom we can really trust, and I shall willingly allow myself to be portrayed on paper, canvas, or panel." Thus spoke one of Matteo Bandello's heroines to her lover, giving voice to a predicament with which the Renaissance reader would have immediately empathized. Where to find the painter who could be trusted to produce an acceptable image of oneself?
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