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Author Beyer, Andreas, 1957-

Title Portraits : a history / by Andreas Beyer ; translated from the German by Steven Lindberg
Edition English-language edition
Published New York., NY : H.N. Abrams, [2003]
©2003

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Description 413 pages : illustrations(color)., portraits ; 33cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction 15 -- The Legacy of Antiquity -- The Invention of the Portrait as the Invention of Painting 17 -- The Portrait in Antiquity 18 -- The Preliminary Stages of the Autonomous Portrait -- The "Epochal Faces" of the Middle Ages 23 -- Rulers and Donors: Legitimacy and Posterity 24 -- The Fifteenth Century -- The Netherlands: The New Image of the Individual 33 -- From the Courtly Canon to the Bourgeois Portrait 33 -- Empiricism and Refinement: Jan van Eyck and His Contemporaries 38 -- Between Tradition and Innovation: Early German Painting 58 -- The Portrait of the Individual in Early Renaissance Italy 61 -- "Uomini Famosi" and Florentine Beauties 61 -- The Court Portrait and the State Portrait 77 -- Correspondences: Italy and the Netherlands 87 -- The Painters' Countenance: Self-Portraits 103 -- The Sixteenth Century -- Reformation and Humanism 111 -- Venice and the North: Bellini and Dürer 111 -- Coats of Arms and the Portrait 113 -- The Portrait of the Scholar: Cranach and Holbein 118 -- The Private Portrait and the Representative Portrait 124 -- The Religious Family Portrait 133 -- The Portrait Culture of the High Renaissance 127 -- Mona Lisa and Raphael's Secular Madonnas 137 -- Art and Propaganda: The Papal Politics of Paintings 146 -- Allegory and Introspection: Giorgione and Lorenzo Lotto 150 -- The Portrait of the Collector 157 -- Titian and the Portrait of the Ruler and Rank 163 -- The Art of the Pose: The Mannerist Portrait 168 -- The Seventeenth Century -- Counter Reformation and Early Baroque 185 -- The Genius of Rome 185 -- The Group Portraiture of Holland 191 -- Likeness or Invention: The Judgment of Art Theory 198 -- The Portrait as Masterpiece 199 -- Frans Hals 199 -- Anthonis van Dyck 202 -- Peter Paul Rubens 212 -- Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 218 -- Diego Velázquez 224 -- Nicolas Poussin 232 -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Physiognomy of Society 237 -- France 237 -- England 237 -- The United States 237 -- Germany: The Icons of Classicism 268 -- A New Age: Goya 278 -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Portrait Historié under the Sign of the Tricolor 287 -- The Bourgeois Portrait 291 -- Portraits of Children 297 -- Portraits of Artists 298 -- Portraits of Women 308 -- Scene from a Marriage 317 -- The Portrait as an Artistic Program 321 -- "Impression," Genre, and Portrait 335 -- Image of the Self and Loss of the Self 337 -- The Twentieth Century -- The "Artistic Faces" of the Modern Age 349 -- The Decapitated Portrait 349 -- The Face as a Conquered Landscape 352 -- Pantomimic Emanations of the Ego 352 -- "Bodyguards" of Modernism 353 -- Body and Symbol 360 -- Rendezvous in the Surreal 367 -- Human Metamorphoses 373 -- Enlarged, Reversed, Lost 381 -- Bibliography 389 -- Index 407 -- Illustration Credits 413
Summary "From its mythic beginnings - the tracing of a man's shadow to maintain his memory during a long absence - to present-day "portrayals" that are almost completely abstract, the genre of portraiture has had the unique goal of capturing, communicating, and documenting humankind's self-image through the ages. This sumptuous, oversized art treasury, with nearly 300 full-page reproductions of major works from museums all over the world, presents the history of Western portraiture, from its evolution in antiquity to its flowering in the Renaissance and Baroque eras to its transformation in modern times. The masters of the portrait - including Jan van Eyck, Leonardo, Raphael, Frans Hals, Hans Holbein, and Rembrandt - are all well represented, as are more recent practitioners of the genre such as Picasso, Chuck Close, and Gerhard Richter. Numerous stunning, close-up details provide an intimate view of the subjects depicted and invaluable information about the artists' techniques."
"Art historian Andreas Beyer's well-researched and far-ranging text offers a fascinating overview of portraiture in all its manifestations: individual and group portraits; official and casual settings; sitters ranging from the famous to the anonymous; renderings of lovers, friends, and family; artists' powerful depictions of themselves; idealized visions along with warts-and-all realism. Through Beyer's vivid description of the portrait's artists, sitters, and contexts - artistic and political - we see how portraiture rose in status from the lowest rank in the hierarchy of genres to a legitimate and respected practice. Sometimes, as in the case of Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas, portraits would encompass the greatest masterpieces in a given artist's oeuvre
Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, Francois Boucher's Madame de Pompadour, John Singer Sargent's Madame X, Pablo Picasso's Gertrude Stein, and scores of other works by the most accomplished artists in portraiture illustrate, as the introduction states, "the seduction of everything human in the image." This volume is a celebration of a key aspect of our artistic heritage."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes Index
Bibliography Bibliography (Artists): pages 396-406
Bibliography: pages 389-396
Subject Portrait painting -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Author Lindberg, Steven.
LC no. 2003012069
ISBN 0810945398 hardback