Re-presenting the common place: architectural portraits in trecento painting

• Autores: Felicity Ratté
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 22, 2001, págs. 87-110
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The writer examines architectural portraits by trecento painters. Such portraits, which feature depictions of known or identifiable buildings, emerge in the 14th century with striking rapidity and power. The form and intricate makeup of these works, as well as their complex relationship to actual structures, indicate that they should be considered as articulate features within the structured language of pictorial imagery. Moreover, the sheer number of examples shows that these portraits cannot be explained as idiosyncratic manifestations of individual artistic style but that they make up part of a widely recognized and used language, which was used to transform, deepen, mediate, and modify the relationship between the depicted narratives and the audience. The rise and sophistication of these works suggests that the growing interest in constructing individual identity and subjectivity evident in the development of human portraiture at this time was accompanied by a new sensitivity to being situated—historically, geographically, and culturally—in place and time.