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Author(s) Lauracc Language English Show full item record Documentary investigations conducted at the Florence State Archives contributed to shed light on eighteenth-century efforts to develop the collection of the Uomini Illustri portraits, exhibited along the walls of the Uffizi Gallery. While the original body of works had been commissioned by granduke Cosimo I to Cristofano di Papi dell'Altissimo, who had copied the series held by Paolo Giovio in his villa in Como, the Florentine collection was later enriched by a massive supply of portraits between 1719 and 1733. The desire to complete the Uffizi 'gioviana' series was probably due to Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and the artist who followed in Cristofano dell'Altissimo's footsteps should be identified in Carlo Ventura Sacconi (1676-1762), who painted 159 portraits of illustrious men. Between 1721 and 1727 the painter also completed the so-called 'serie Aulica', which was displayed - just like the 'gioviana' series - in the corridors of the Florentine Gallery.
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"The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript "Bathseba", the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas' engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today's leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia."
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To define the social interactions of a photographer and the portrayed artist as friendship is a recurring topos in art. However, only in some instances can the photographic portrait fulfill the concrete visibility represented in romantic paintings. Do the attributes of portraiture of a friend remain as unspecified as the hope for authenticity and intimacy ascribed to the term friendship?
Artists. --- Portraits. --- Photographers.
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The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise. In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search out signs and structures of that "company" with which bread is shared (lat. cum pane), a society which, despite seemingly predetermined rules, is always a work in progress.
Photography, Artistic. --- Business enterprises. --- Portraits.
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Un large corpus de portraits répartis principalement dans les anciens territoires de la Monarchie des Habsbourg (Autriche, Bohême, Hongrie, Pays-Bas autrichiens, certains territoires italiens) a été réalisé entre la naissance de Marie-Thérèse en 1717 et sa mort en 1780, surtout entre 1740 et 1780. Ce corpus a permis d'analyser l'importance des portraits de Marie-Thérèse au sein des pays de la Monarchie. Il existe peu de travaux en histoire concernant la représentation picturale de la souveraine autrichienne. Malgré la Pragmatique Sanction de 1713 censée garantir l'accès au trône de la fille aînée de Charles VI, l'arrivée au pouvoir de Marie-Thérèse en 1740 est immédiatement remise en cause et marquée par de nombreuses contestations externes comme internes. L'allégeance des élites de la Monarchie n'est jamais totalement acquise. La formation étatique sous le contrôle de la Monarchie est encore fragile et nécessite un certain nombre de rituels ; la commande, l'envoi et le don de ces portraits royaux nous apparaît ainsi comme l'un d'entre eux. Dans le contexte conjoncturel de la situation de Marie-Thérèse ainsi que dans celui plus structurel de la Monarchie des Habsbourg au cours du XVIIIe siècle, l'image de la souveraine est un enjeu de taille pour la souveraine elle-même, comme pour les élites de la Monarchie (les nobles d'ancienne ou de plus récente noblesse, les élites urbaines et ecclésiastiques). L'élaboration de l'image d'une femme qui est aussi « roi » de Hongrie et de Bohême puis impératrice-veuve offre un riche répertoire d'images qui agit d'autant plus efficacement qu'il s'agit de mettre en place une figure particulièrement forte et reconnaissable du pouvoir central. L'analyse des portraits sous différents aspects (sous l'angle de la production, sous celui de leur localisation et des occasions de la commande ainsi que sous l'angle de leur contenu iconographique) aide à appréhender la représentation du corps de la reine lorsque celle-ci est « souverain ». Ces portraits offrent aussi une perspective sur les rapports de la souveraine avec ses élites, comme des élites entre elles et avec le pouvoir des Habsbourg.
Image (Philosophy) --- Portraits --- In art. --- Political aspects --- Maria Theresa,
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Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946) ist eine der Ikonen der nordischen Malerei der Moderne. Doch erst seit einigen Jahren findet ihre Kunst auch außerhalb ihrer zentralen Wirkungsstätten Finnland und Schweden große Beachtung. Elementarer Bestandteil von Schjerfbecks Œuvre sind ihre Selbstbildnisse. Das Porträtieren der eigenen Gesichtszüge begleitet die international ausgebildete Malerin seit den 1870er Jahren bis kurz vor ihrem Tod 1946. Bislang sind etwa 40 Selbstporträts bekannt. Diese Werke geben Einblick in die künstlerische Entwicklung der Finn-landschwedin - in ihnen experimentiert sie am offenkundigsten mit unterschiedli-chen Techniken und Bildfindungen. Das Ergebnis sind selbstbewusste Statements in einem männlich dominierten Kunstbetrieb. In einer schonungslosen Wahrheits-suche werden Themen wie Kreativität, Tod und Gender aufgegriffen. Dabei entste-hen visuelle Referenzen zu Arbeiten von Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz oder Francis Bacon. Schjerfbecks beständiges Changieren zwischen Figuration und Abstraktion erfordert ein Überdenken des konventionellen Porträtbegriffs - was ist konstitutiv für die Gattung, wenn die äußere Ähnlichkeit zur Porträtierten reduziert wird? Eine hermeneutische Annäherung an die Bildnisse gibt Aufschluss über deren Inhalte und Einblicke in die Zeit, in der sie entstanden sind.
Schjerfbeck, Helene, --- Modern painting --- Self-portraits --- Portrait art --- Sweden --- Finland
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"The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript “Bathseba”, the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas’ engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today’s leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia. "
The arts --- Portraits in art --- Biography & True Stories --- Literature & literary studies --- History --- Finnish literature --- The arts. --- Portraits in art. --- Biography & True Stories. --- Literature & literary studies. --- History. --- Kallas, Aino,
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