Medieval History
"Portrait and Counter-Portrait in Holbein's The Family of Sir Thomas More" by David R. Smith, published in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 484-506
Smith's main argument:
"The point of the picture's irony is not so much to negate Thomas More's public persona as to render it ambivalent, and in this respect it draws on some of the deepest resources of humanist social and moral as I hope to show."
I believe he argues this idea well, and the article is certainly worth reading if you can get your hands on it. Who doesn't need a little more Holbein in their life?
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Medieval History
Portrait and Counter-Portrait
Smith's main argument:
"The point of the picture's irony is not so much to negate Thomas More's public persona as to render it ambivalent, and in this respect it draws on some of the deepest resources of humanist social and moral as I hope to show."
I believe he argues this idea well, and the article is certainly worth reading if you can get your hands on it. Who doesn't need a little more Holbein in their life?
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Thousands of visitors come into Canterbury Cathedral each day, where they gaze upon the hundreds of years of history in one of England?s greatest churches. Many of them will see the great stained glass images in the windows of the cathedral, believing...
- Book Of Lismore Goes On Display At University College Cork
University College Cork (UCC) will be hosting an exhibit featuring a major medieval Irish manuscripts, the Book of Lismore. The fifteenth-century manuscript will be on public display from 22 July to 30 October at the Glucksman Gallery in an exhibition...
- Nicholson Reviews Riley-smith, The Crusades, Christianity, And Islam
Helen Nicholson recently reviewed Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011) for Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Michael Evans. This volume contains a slightly revised edition...
- Johannes Aquila Pictor And Flóris Rómer
I am currently writing a conference paper on Flóris Rómer, one of the founding fathers of Hungarian art history. Flóris Rómer was born 200 years ago, in 1815, and filled numerous important positions during his illustrious career. He became active...
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The Bolle Monument in Haugh Church, Lincolnshire Haugh church, Lincolnshire On the chancel wall in the tiny Norman church of Haugh in the Lincolnshire Wolds, is an alabaster monument. The monument is not that unusual, it has the typical Elizabethan and...