We dont really know exactly why portraits were made
Female portrait were make for marriage and bethrotal but not always and we dont have a lot of witnesses on
this idea.
Ancient world it was believed that a picture may show the outer version of the person but never be able to
show the true character but this is where renaissance will try its hardest to break that glass.
Poetry was believed to be the true way a person could be truly shown but we will see Da Vinci would break
this rule. He is even known to have said that a portrait can capture the very image of the beloved object more
that a poetry ever could
The two frames of reference. Artistic and poetic vonjoined
It rst came in Florence
Some times such can be shown with emblem and writing.
Poetic intimacy and vividness spurred from many areas. such as memings and Christus.
— illusionism and 3/4 portrait and mostly Italian.
Florentine artists rst did such portraiture in sculptures.\
Before the 1470 it was always in pro le portrait especially for women to avoid manly gaze
But later then it was evoked to create a relation between the viewer and the sitter , the object starts to move
toward us and the 3/4 pro le comes up.
The bust of berrocchio is one of the most interesting bust we have and it is not a noble women given her
clothes and nipples and nger pointing to it.
Verrochio did paint one more portrait but we dont have it and we have the knowledge of it from the medici
records
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Desiderio da Settignano
Portrait of a Woman with a Man — Far Filippo Lippi (ca 1440) — MET
The rst Italian portrait to include elements behind the window.
The four rings of the woman and ‘loyalty’
The men has a shadow on the wall which may by a hint of the beautiful love
story that Alberti repopularised the idea of Art of painting being born when
someone tracked the shadow of their lover.
How small the man is and its revolutionary in terms of improtance given to man.
Is this a amish in uence or Florentine innovation?
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DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO, BUSTO DI DAMA DETTA MARIETTA STROZZI, FIRENZE 1462 CA.
Pazzi Madonna — Donatello (ca 1425)
Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) | Medal:
John VIII Palaeologus | The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alesso baldovinetti, Portrait of a Lady in Yellow. 1465
Palma di Urbino
But that’s not the case
The higher the hairline, the more beautiful
The black band makes you notice it
Botecelli
Early example of botecelli portrait
Trained in the studio of fra llipo lippi
PORTRAIT OF A LADY KNOWN AS SMERALDA BANDINELLI
1470
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ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH BOUQUET, ABOUT 1475-80.
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Clearly cut at the bottom which might indicate that she might have had hands as well
Ginevra is shown as a
RITRATTO DI GINEVRA DE' BENCI
DIPINTO DI LEONARDO DA VINCI
1474
Similar to Genevra. Present in medici collection
First artist to put in an actual space
Many questions… maybe an annuncio for marriage
Petrus christus , 1470s
Portrait of a young woman
Self portrait?
As I Can
they are illusions or not actual carving
Maybe a mirror
Such realism shown that it might be used as an advertisement that one can compare the
real van eyck and this to sell
The frame and its font give a very historic feeling. Maybe van Eyck knew he would be a big
part of the history or maybe he mastered the art of making pictures in a way that they seem
like they would de nitely be a part of the history
1433
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3/4, scroll we cant read,
Greek: Timotheos (maybe a musician, lawyer?)
French: Loyal Memory (maybe he is dead and the stone is tombstone)
Latin: Acted in the year 1432 on the 10th day of October by Jan Van Eyck
1432
Jan van eyck dies at the age of 51 in 1441, and leave a legacy
Petrus Christos introduces the Italian linear perspective which was introduced
Brunelleschi and championed by Masaccio in the Trinita a santa maria novella
strongly illuminated red room
Eyes stare at with alertness and curiosity.
Illusionist frame with a y and van-eyck’sh inscription
trompe l’oeil
Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446
Peter Chritus
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Portrait of a young woman, 1465
Peter Chritus
Who is she?
Typical middle class woman
Mongol gugu hat
Annuncio per wedding?
First Florentine 3/4 portrait
who in uence who?
Andrea del Castagno — 1450
Portrait of a man
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Hans Memling
Sandro Botticelli
1485
Domenico Ghirlandaio
1490
Arnol ni Portrait 1434
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