ArtH 3291 Portraiture

Prof. Dabbs

Fall 2009

SLIDE REVIEW LIST FOR EXAM 2 (scheduled for Wed. Oct. 28)

please let me know of any broken links after trying a few times – thanks!

The Gaze:

- Beham, The Umpire, 1529

[also saw again Holbein, Lady Guildford; and Lotto, Man with Golden Animal Paw]

- Titian, Man with Blue Sleeve, 1515

- Giovanni Bellini, Doge Leonardo Loredan, c.1507

- Raphael, Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami, c.1511

- van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c.1460

- van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban, 1433

Terms: direct gaze; side-long gaze; averted gaze; roving gaze

Identity, Character, & Status (had bypassed this earlier):

Leonardo, Ginevra de’ Benci, c. 1475

Reverse of the painting

Lotto, Portrait of Lucrezia Valier, c. 1533 [also called simply Portrait of a Woman as Lucretia]

[this is now under portraits of women] Piero di Cosimo, Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1490

J.S. Copley: [dropped, sorry! But he’s in my American art class….]

[dropped for now] Mary and Elizabeth Royall, c. 1758

Epes Sargent, c. 1760

Nathaniel Sparhawk, 1764

John Hancock, 1765

Terms: attribute; provenance

Portraits of Men: [others on coursepack list that were not seen in class have been dropped]

- Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, c.1515

- Bronzino, Portrait of a Young Man, 1535-40

- Moretto da Brescia, Portrait of a Young Man, c.1530

[added] Hilliard, Young Man Among Roses, 1588

[added] Lotto, Portrait of a Young Man with a Book, 1529

[added] Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782

Portraits of Women:

- Piero di Cosimo, Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1490

- Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1488

- Bronzino, Laura Battiferri, c.1555

- Giorgione, Laura, 1506

Image of 17^th C. art gallery that I showed was by Teniers, Archduke Leopold in his Gallery, 1647

-Raphael, Portrait of a Young Woman (“La Fornarina”), 1518

[added] Rubens, Portrait of Helene de Fourment as Venus

Names/Terms: chastity; courtesan; allegorical portrait; “venus pudica”

The State Portrait:

- [added] Bronzino, Andrea Doria as Neptune, c.1550

- [added] Commodus as Hercules, c. 190 AD

- [added] Stuart, George Washington (“Lansdowne Portrait”), 1796

Here’s the M.I.A. version

- Van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback, c. 1635

Compared to: Marcus Aurelius

- Van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt, c. 1635

- Raphael, Pope Julius II

- [didn’t see; I may do on Monday, possibly some additional Elizabeth portraits: Gheeraerts, Elizabeth I, 1596 ]

- [drop: Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Marie Antoinette and Her Children, 1787

[and earlier Portrait of Marie Antoinette, 1778]

Terms: equestrian portrait; allegorical portrait

Here are links to some of the modern state portraits that were presented (I’ll add a few after Monday’s class too; won’t have to ID,

but will be useful to think about in relation to early modern state portraits))

- Jesse Ventura

- Nelson Mandela

- The Dalai Lama

- King Harald of Norway

- President Clinton

- President Obama

- First Lady Michelle Obama (official portrait)

[and we can’t forget Bo’s official portrait!]

SELF-PORTRAITURE: well, since we have 8 presentations to go on Monday 10/26, this section will be done at some point in part 3 of the course!

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