The Portrait in the Renaissance

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historians In this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated, a concept first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Bollingen Series
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	1967
Authors:	John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy
Dimensions:	254 x 203mm (L x W)
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-25212-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-691-25212-2
Barcode:	9780691252124

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