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<p><b>A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historians</b><br><br>In this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated, a concept first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later i
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- Author
- John Pope-Hennessy - undifferentiated, Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780714813059
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Art, Technology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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