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In the fifteenth century, the formats commonly used for panel portraits were the profile and the three-quarter view. The former was popular in central-northern Italy, especially for female likenesses. With fifty-seven works, this chapter attempts a taxonomy of the Italian profile likenesses by studying the format's entwined aesthetic and conceptual origins, and its perceived suitability for portraying women. With analyses that also consider the spreading popularity of profiles to decorate nuptial and domestic items, it concludes that these paintings are "icons of urbanitas," as I call them, because they represent the civic and civil ideals of the social network that commissioned and viewed these works. I foreshadowed this trajectory in the previous chapter's suggestion about relational and mnemonic conditions of spectatorship. Linked to this concept is a distinction that I introduce here between a mode of seeing-in of the northern audiences and seeing-as of the Italian audiences. I will expand the terms of this difference throughout the book.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN