by SPerkinson (Author)
Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices, offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 400
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 27 Oct 2009
ISBN 10: 0226658791
ISBN 13: 9780226658797