'Sons of the Truth, Lovers of Virtue': Painting the Patrician in Renaissance Venice

Autor:	Katherine R. Smith Abbott
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Literature Painting Virtue Fifteenth Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Museology Art history The Renaissance Physiognomy Art Portrait business media_common Theme (narrative)
Zdroj:	Visual Resources. 28:43-57
ISSN:	1477-2809 0197-3762
DOI:	10.1080/01973762.2012.653431
Popis:	Venetian patrician portraits of the late fifteenth century document deeply ingrained expectations of that class. Largely static and impassive, the subjects of independent portraits appear as slight variations on a theme, rather than as studies of individuals. In contrast, Titian's (Tiziano Vecellio, ca. 1488–1576) early portraits seem to represent a significant departure from tradition and reveal the artist's commitment to portraying personality, as well as physiognomy. In this article, I suggest that Titian's success was due in part to his knowledge of and sensitivity to the social constraints of late fifteenth-century Venetian culture. In turn, this allowed him to consciously accommodate traditional expectations of his patrician clientele while incrementally introducing the modern portrait.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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