Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-1661-9 (ISBN)
Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile’s portrait from Mehmed’s court to the Venetian lagoon, from the railway stations of war-torn Europe to the walls of London’s National Gallery, exploring its life as a painting and its afterlife as a famous, often puzzling image.
Rediscovered by the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard at the height of Orientalist outlooks in Britain, the picture was also the subject of a lawsuit over what defines a “portrait”; it was claimed by Italians seeking to hold onto national patrimony around 1900; and it starred in a solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1999. Rodini’s focused inquiry also ranges broadly, considering the nature of historical evidence, the shifting status of authenticity and verisimilitude, and the contemporary political resonance of Old Master paintings.
Told as an object biography and imagined as an exploration of art historical methodologies, this book situates Gentile’s portrait in evolving dialogues between East and West, uncovering the many and varied ways that objects construct meaning.
Elizabeth Rodini is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Previously she founded the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University, USA, where she was Teaching Professor in the History of Art.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Pursuing a Portrait: Subject, Object, Method
2. In Circulation: Courtly Exchange and the Discourse of Objects
3. Encounters: Artist, Subject, Audiences, and the Matter of Truth in Painting
4. History, Memory, and the Trails from Istanbul to Venice
5. Self and Other: Excavating the Orientalist Imagination
6. Constructing Authenticity: Restoration, Provenance, and Reproduction
7. To London? Emerging Debates over Cultural Patrimony
8. Art, History, or Heirloom? Classifying Gentile’s Portrait in the Twentieth Century
9. Return to Istanbul: Situating Mehmed’s Image Today
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.09.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 40 bw illus 8 colour illus |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 378 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7556-1661-8 / 0755616618 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-1661-9 / 9780755616619 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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