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The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico Hardcover – November 14, 2023

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A new study of the early Renaissance portrait

In 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 modeled, for modern viewers, ideal involvement in the emotion-laden stories. In The Embedded Portrait, Christopher S. Wood traces these incursions of the real and profane into Florentine sacred painting between Giotto and Fra Angelico.

The 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. The Embedded Portrait 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 “little Giotto.” Little-known today but highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of painting that was later realized by Fra Angelico through his own innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait.

Seeking not to stabilize the artworks but to extend their reach, the interpretations offered in The Embedded Portrait re-create and update the psychic and libidinal energies that gave rise to these works in the first place.

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    Princeton University Press
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    November 14, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    7.75 x 1 x 11 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    069124426X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0691244266
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"Wood presents not only a thorough examination of the role portraits played in 14th paintings, he provides a stellar example of art historical thinking."---Marissa Moss, New York Journal of Books

"Impressively ambitious in scope and personably written." ― Choice

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“I was hooked from page one. Christopher S. Wood can boil difficult ideas down into clear, sharp formulations and describe pictures in a way that changes the things one pays attention to. He marshals a stunning range of historical and theoretical texts, shifting with enviable facility between discursive registers and interpretative frameworks. His analogies, asides, and historiographic remarks—even his footnotes—stayed with me as much as his central arguments. He may be the most original historian of Renaissance art working anywhere today, and this is one of his most surprising and remarkable books.”—Michael W. Cole, Columbia University

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (November 14, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 069124426X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691244266
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 1 x 11 inches

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