The Likeness of the King by Stephen Perkinson

The University of Chicago Press
The Likeness of the King by Stephen Perkinson
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'.