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Author Campbell, Lorne.

Title Renaissance portraits : European portrait-painting in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries / Lorne Campbell
Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1990

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Description xiii, 290 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction -- Portrait types: Portrait series -- Group portraits -- Double portraits -- Single portraits -- Portrait drawings -- Portrait miniatures -- Shapes, supports, pigments, media -- Frames and covers -- Poses -- Settings, clothes and attributes -- The sitters -- The painters -- Portrait method -- The functions and uses of portraits -- Italy and 'the North'
Summary Explores the aesthetic, technical, social and economic aspects of Renaissance portrait-painting and offers a close examination of the works of artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo, Durer, Raphael, Holbein, and Titian. Draws on the writings and private correspondence of the painters and their patrons, and describes and analyzes the ways in which sitters were individualised, idealised and characterised--Amazon
Analysis Europe
Paintings Special subjects Portraits
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index
Subject Portrait painting, European.
Portrait painting, Renaissance -- Europe.
Portrait painting, Renaissance.
LC no. 89022686
ISBN 0300046758