{"product_id":"9780691244266","title":"The Embedded Portrait","description":"Author: Christopher S. Wood\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691244266\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 376\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new study of the early Renaissance portrait.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men - not only clergy but also laity - introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared space with the holy narratives. The portraits mimicked the first worshippers of Christ: Mary, the Three Magi, Mary Magdalene. At the same time, they modelled, for modern viewers, ideal involvement in the emotion-laden stories. In \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher S. Wood traces these incursions of the real and profane into Florentine sacred painting between Giotto and Fra Angelico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe portraits not only intruded upon a sacred space, but also intervened in an artwork. The pressure exerted by the modern interlopers - their lives and experiences, implied by their portraits - threatened the formal closure that had served as a powerful symbolic form of the pact between God and humans. \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs this art historical drama from the point of view of the artists rather than the patrons. Following clues left by Vasari, the book assigns a leading role to the painter Giottino, or \u0026amp;#x27;little Giotto\u0026amp;#x27;. Little-known today but highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of painting that was later realised by Fra Angelico through his own innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking not to stabilise the artworks but to extend their reach, the interpretations offered in \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e re-create and update the psychic and libidinal energies that gave rise to these works in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803878117534,"sku":"ADS-9780691244266","price":99.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691244266.jpg?v=1778206662","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691244266","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}