The Likeness of the King by Stephen Perkinson
Product Specifications
- Title: The Likeness of the King by Stephen Perkinson
- Author: Stephen Perkinson
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Binding: Hardback
- History of art art & design styles
- No. of pages: 352
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 23 x 16 x 3
Product Description
Did portraits exist in the medieval era? This title challenges the canonical account of the invention of modern portrait practices offering a case against the tendency of the scholarship to identify late medieval likenesses of historical personages as 'the first modern portraits'.