ArtH 3291 – Portraiture

Fall 2011   Prof. Dabbs

Slide Review List for Exam #1 (scheduled for Thurs. Sept. 22)

 

 

Please note:  the slide list will be updated each week with any additions or deletions. If you find any broken links, please let me know ASAP – thanks!

 

[reminder:  you will NOT be asked to indicate the date on the exam, although it is given below]

 

Defining the Portrait:

 

          Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as “Vertumnus”, 1590

 

Bernini, Scipione Borghese, 1630s [caricature]  (lower image)

 

 Brouwer, Youth Making a Face, c.1632-35

Stubbs, Poodle in a Punt, c.1780

Titian, La Bella, 1536

 

Vermeer, Girl with Pearl Earring, c.1665

 

Landseer, Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1839

 

R. Cosway, The Eye of Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1786 

 

Picasso, Portrait of Daniel Kahnweiler, 1910

 

Morimura Yasumasa, Pears with Noses 1992

 

                                               

Terms covered:  portrait “conventions”; caricature;  pseudo-portrait;  tronie;  composite head

 

 

 

Purposes of Portraits:

 

Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione, c.1514

 

          Roman Patrician with Busts of Ancestors, 1st C. A.D.

 

          [added]  Bellini, Portrait of a Young Man, 1500

                    Term:  parapet

 

          Castagno, Pippo Spano, c. 1450

 

[dropped] Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Man, c.1475

 

Rubens, Presentation of Portrait of Marie de’Medici to Henry IV, 1622-25

 

[added]  Holbein, Anne of Cleves, c.1539

 

[dropped] Van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, 1434

 

Van Eyck, Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, c. 1435

 

Rigaud,  Louis XIV, 1701

 

 [dropped from this section] Van Eyck, Leal Souvenir, 1432 

 

 

Other Terms covered:  devotional portrait;  donor portrait

 

 

Theory & Practice of Portraiture:

 

          *know “Legend of the Corinthian Maiden” and why of significance for portraiture[don’t have to know the image I showed for that]

 

          Fetti, Veil of Veronica, c. 1618

              Term:  acheiropoetos              

          [also saw in conjunction with this Memling’s history painting of St. Veronica]

 

          [added] Raphael, School of Athens, 1510

              Term:  history painting

 

          [added] Steen, Feastday of St. Nicholas, 1665

             Term:  genre painting

 

Titian, Isabella d’Este , 1536

           Vigée-Lebrun, Countess Bucquoi, 1793

          Vigée-Lebrun, Countess Golovin, c.1798

 

          Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Calonne, 1784

 

Jan van Eyck, Cardinal Nicolas Albergati,  1435 (ptg)   drawing

 

          Holbein,  Lady Guildford (painting), 1527  (drawing) 

 

          Bernini, Portrait Bust of Louis XIV, 1665

           Terms:   hierarchy of genres (in art) [know position of portraiture within this]

 

Media:

 

Portrait of a Young Boy, Faiyum, 1^st C. AD

 

Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man, c.1480

 

          Durer, Self-portrait with Fur Coat, 1500

 

Leonardo da Vinci, Isabella d’Este, 1500

 

          David, Portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, c.1628

 

          Carriera, Portrait of Lord Boyne, 1731

 

          [added] Rossellini, Giovanni Chellini, c. 1456

 

          [added] Donatello, Nicolo da Uzzano, 1430s

 

          [added] P. Wright, William Pitt, 1779

 

Cellini, Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici

 

          Casoni, Portrait Medal of Lavinia Fontana                                                                                                    

 

[dropped] Titian, La Schiavona, [or, The Slavic Woman] 1510

 

 

Terms:  *encaustic (term added);  tempera vs. oil                                                                            

               presentation drawing; engraving;  pastel

               paragone [did this here rather than under theory/practice]

         

    

Formats:

 

          [don’t have to know] Hilliard, Self-portrait, 1577

              

          Hilliard, Man Among Flames

 

Bellini, Leonardo Loredan

 

          Durer, Self-Portrait with Fur Coat, 1500

 

Hals,   Married Couple in a Garden,  c.1622

 

          Holbein, Sir Henry Guildford;  Lady Guildford

 

          Lotto, Goldsmith in Three Views, c.1530 

 

Pontormo, Portrait of a Lady in Red

 

Rigaud, Louis XIV  [see link above]

 

 

Terms:   miniature;  bust/bust-length; ½ length; ¾ length; full-length;   double portrait;  pendant;  triple portrait;  pyramidal            

 

 

Pose, Gesture & Expression:

 

Ghirlandaio, Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, c. 1488

 

[added]  Piero della Francesca, Federigo da Montefeltro, 1466

 

Van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady  c.1460

 

          Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa,  c.1505  [also saw Leonardo’s drawing of Isabella d’Este – see link above]

 

 

- Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione [see link above]

 

- Antonello da Messina, Smiling Man, 1470

 

- Leyster, Self-portrait, c.1640

 

[added]  Bernini, Portrait of Scipione Borghese, 1630s

 

[added] Bernini, Portrait of Costanza Bonarelli, 1630s

 

 - Holbein, Henry VIII, 1540

 

-      Titian, Isabella d’Este  [see link in section above]

 

- Hals, Jasper Schade

 

- Lotto, Man with Golden Animal Paw, 1524

 

-      Fontana, Portrait of a Family, c. 1580

 

Terms:   profile;  frontal;  3/4 view;  hieratic

               pathos vs ethos

               speaking likeness;  “Renaissance elbow”;

                            

Textual sources:  Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528);  Bulwer, Chirologia

 

          ------------------------------------------------------- final update made, 9/20/11 ---------------------------------------------   

The Gaze:  [will do for exam #2]

 

 

  Identity, Character, & Status  [will do for exam #2]

 

Essay Question for Exam #1 (will write in class):

          Compare and contrast some of the functions (purposes) of portraits in early modern European vs. present-day American culture –

to what extent have some purposes remained the same, and to what extent have they changed?

In your discussion of the early modern portraits, please refer to works of art we’ve seen to support your points (identify the work by

artist/title).