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A donor portrait or votive portrait is a portrait in a larger painting or other work showing the person who commissioned and paid for the image, or a member of his, or (much more rarely) her, family.
images themselves. These scenes are unusual in the Byzantine repertoire in that they show an interaction between contemporary figures, real characters living their lives at the time that the scenes were executed, and the hallowed spiritual figures so familiar to us from the res.
This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors.
15 lis 2018 · This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their...
This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory con-tact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, super-natural interlocutors. The topic is approached from a range of perspectives, including art history, theology, structuralist and post ...
Breaking Conventions: Donor Portraits in Ghirlandaio’s Malatesta Altarpiece Jonathan K. Nelson The Malatesta Altarpiece (Rimini, Museo della Città; fig. 10.1), produced by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–94) and collaborators in 1493–96, breaks long-established artistic conventions for donor portraits.1 Most notably, the female figure at the ...
Donor portraits appear in altarpieces and are essential parts of devotional diptychs and triptychs; in these smaller works used for worship in the home, a single sitter, a husband and wife, or a donor and his patron saint face a devotional image, such as the Virgin and Child, in an attitude of prayer.
