Essays about: "portraiture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word portraiture.

  1. 1. Between palette and lens : self-portraiture within turn-of-the-century media culture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Rakel Sandler; [2023]
    Keywords : History and Archaeology;

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  3. 2. RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS : Pairs in Art and Marriage

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristel Thalström; [2023]
    Keywords : portraiture; Renaissance; Italy; marital pendant portraits; fashion; culture; nobility; context; marriage.;

    Abstract : The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine portraits of married couples from the Italian Renaissance. It is a study of how, and why, men and women are portrayed differently even though they are married to each other and painted by the same artist. READ MORE

  4. 3. DIOSES EN LA TIERRA E EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DE LA MANCHA : VELÁZQUEZ’S SUBVERSION OF THE HABSBURG MYSTIQUE OF POWER

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Dan Hanqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Baroque; Siglo de Oro; Portraiture; Diego Velázquez; Philip IV; Naturalism; Subversion; Habsburg Iconography; Political Iconography; Vision; Visuality; Reception; Barroco; Siglo de Oro; retrato; Diego Velázquez; Felipe IV; naturalismo; subverción; Habsburgo; Austrias; Iconografía; Iconografía política; visión; visualidad; recepción;

    Abstract : Sometimes the concrete form and skill of a work of art stand in a non-arbitrary or non-contingent relationship with the social circumstances of its facture. I hypothesise that this form and such skill was used by Diego Velázquez for artistically, socially and politically subversive purposes. READ MORE

  5. 4. Virtuous Women; Flower Iconography in Female Portraits During the Seventeenth Century

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Sally Granbacka; [2022]
    Keywords : art history; konstvetenskap; porträttkonst; gender; portraiture; flower iconography;

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  6. 5. Treading the Timeline : A Study of the Newly Renovated Permanent Art and Design Exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Linn Högström-Schnee; [2018]
    Keywords : art history; art museums; history of art exhibitions; museology; Nationalmuseum; permanent exhibitions; public museums; ritual structure;

    Abstract : The present study is, to my knowledge, the first investigating the newly renovated and rearranged permanent art and design exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The Timeline. The exhibition presents Western art from 1500 to 1914 and design and portraiture from 1500 until today in a chronological arrangement. READ MORE