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History, Myth, and Maṭam in Southeast Indian Portraits

open access: yesCracow Indological Studies, 2022
Portraiture emerged as a major interest in literature, sculpture, and painting in early modern southeastern India. While this may, on one hand, reflect an interest in historical documentation, it is also indicative of the wider significance of mimetic ...
Anna Lise Seastrand
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The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2023
The invention and popularization of photography in the nineteenth century revolutionized portraiture. From the beginnings, many writers posed in front of the camera to have their portraits captured by the successive developments of the daguerreotype, the
Audrey Doussot
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The Integration of Art and Politics in the Portraiture of Shah Ismail I from the Safavid Era to the Qajar Period [PDF]

open access: yesنگره
Introduction: The ascension of Shah Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, in the 10th century AH brought about significant transformations in the political, social, religious, and artistic realms.
Niloofar Farahipour   +2 more
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Self-portraiture: on photography’s reflexive surface

open access: yes, 2016
This exposition presents a practice-based research project, developed between 2007 and 2012, which aims to establish a better understanding between self-portraiture, narcissism, and narrativity in individual photographic images and in photography ...
Kalpaxi, Elisavet
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‘A landmark of the transience of all earthly greatness, glory and power!’ Versailles and the Myth of the Ancien Régime in the Writings and Collections of the Swedish Marquis Claes Lagergren (1853−1930)

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2023
Born a Swedish farmer’s son, Claes Lagergren trained as a tradesman in Paris in the early 1870s. An unexpected inheritance made him financially independent and enabled him to begin his travels in Europe. Whilst in Rome, he converted to the Roman Catholic
Sabrina Norlander Eliasson
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Imaging Identity: Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays ...

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Allison Levy. Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
peer reviewedBook Review of Allison Levy's Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and ...
L\u27Estrange, Elizabeth   +3 more
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Genre Painting and Portraiture: On the Boundary Between Genres [PDF]

open access: yesХудожественная культура
The article highlights a trend in Russian and Western painting concerning the boundaries between genre and portraiture. In the article the author refers to such pieces of art as a mixed ‘everyday genre with portraiture’, though some other definitions are
Samokhin Aleksandr
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