Fashions of Friendship in an Early Modern Illustrated Album Amicorum: British Library, MS Egerton 1191

Autor:	Margaret F. Rosenthal
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature Friendship business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Art history Art business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 39:619-641
ISSN:	1527-8263 1082-9636
DOI:	10.1215/10829636-2009-007
Popis:	The album amicorum, or album of friends, is a singular visual example of early modern travelers' fascination with swiftly changing fashions, regional customs, family lineage, and manuscript decoration. A type of souvenir scrapbook, the album amicorum preserves in its pages colored depictions of local fashions in dress and various regional customs witnessed while traveling. Along with these miniatures, the album combines sententious mottoes, heraldic shields, and personalized inscriptions from friends met during one's travels. The album owner and friends display their newly acquired humanist education by quoting from ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, and Italian, often on the theme of everlasting friendship. This essay looks closely at one album, owned by a German student attending law school at the University of Padua from 1575 to 1579, in order to determine the organizational structure of the album amicorum and how the visual material interacts with the written mottoes and inscriptions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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