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Václav Švadlena, thesis consists of two parts, the theoretical and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with the portrait its history, forms of portraiture and the gradual transition from painting to photography. The theoretical work contains chapters devoted to the authors: Francisco Goya and Alberto Giacometti. The practical part contains a set of sketches in the form of artist´s books exploring family genetic markers. I tis supplemented by the cycle of portraits the tetraptych of large-scale drawings. The aim is to inform about the phenomenon of a portrait, to create the artist´s books of sketches and a set of large drawings family portraits.

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The portrait genre has been one of the most significant in royal and aristocratic homes since the Renaissance. This thesis concerns the portrait collection in the Baroque castle Skokloster, built by the successful count and field marshal Carl Gustaf Wrangel in the 1600s with its unique architecture. The castle houses a significant collection of portrait paintings, some of which date back to the time of its construction, and which constitute a majority of the total number of artworks in the collection. The Swedish noble family, as part of Early Modern court culture, saw their creation of an art collection as vital for fashioning a sense of lineage, respectability, and exercise of power. The thesis asks questions like how the portraits can be understood in relation to the architecture and decorum of the rooms, and how the Swedish Baroque culture and aesthetics are staged in the portraits in relation to court culture and the art collection as a whole. The portrait as a medium is a way for us to remember a deceased historical person but at the same time a way for the sitter to idealize and flatter themselves into an image they desire. Hence a portrait is a union between realism and ideal, documentation and fiction. The portrait has a performative power and acts on behalf of the real person which it depicts. Furthermore, the portrait can give us glimpses of a bygone era of court culture, art patrons, artists, Baroque fashion, court ballets, and festivities.

This dissertation examines the relationship between art and power in the reign of Catherine II of Russia (1762-1796). It considers Catherine's state portraits as historical texts that revealed symbolic manifestations of autocratic power, underscoring the close relationship between aesthetics and politics during the reign of Russia's longest serving female ruler. The Russian empress actively exploited the portrait medium in order to transcend the limitations of her gender, assert legitimacy and display herself as an exemplar of absolute monarchy. The resulting symbolic representation was protean and adaptive, and it provided Catherine with a means to negotiate the anomaly of female rule and the ambiguity of her Petrine inheritance. In the reign of Catherine the Great, the state portraits functioned as an alternate form of political discourse.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 William Golino.pdf: 22459041 bytes, checksum: 405b5d6c2e2313724a978a19439ac51a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The portrait, like any image, is one form of specific ideology of the image field, irreducible, different from the ideologies of other fields, such as politics, literary, etc. Therefore, it is an image ideology, it means, a relatively coherent visual set of beliefs, values and representations, produced by the representative of the social class that commissions and uses it, inseparable from economy, politics and morals. By means of its forms, the portrait presents and represents the global interests and needs of the class, as well as, the particular interests and needs of the class sectors involved in its production, propagation and storage. The main way to explain it is through the analysis of composition, stylistic techniques, materials, dimensions and other original data, historically fixed. Hypothesis: The portrait is constituent to the social relations. Justification: To explain its historical insertion. Theoretical and methodological aspects: Analysis of the integration between artistic and non-artistic forms and contents. Objective: To demonstrate the ideological character of the portrait. Obtained results: The portrait forms determine their aesthetic and plastic meanings, integrated with other ambits of life, for instance, the modern portrait has modern forms while the classic and academic portrait has classic and academic forms / O retrato, como qualquer imagem, é uma forma de ideologia específica do campo imagético, irredutível, diferente das ideologias de outros campos, tais como o político, literário, etc., portanto, é uma ideologia imagética, ou seja, um conjunto visual, relativamente coerente, de crenças, valores e representações, produzido pelo representante da classe social que o encomenda e utiliza, indissociável de economia, política e moral. Por meio de suas formas, o retrato apresenta e representa os interesses e necessidades globais de classe e particulares dos setores de classes envolvidos em sua produção, veiculação e guarda. O principal meio para explicá-lo é a análise de composição, técnicas estilísticas, materiais, dimensões e outros dados originais, historicamente fixados. Hipótese: O retrato é constituinte às relações sociais. Justificativa: Explicar sua inserção histórica. Aspectos teórico-metodológicos: Análise da integração entre formas e conteúdos artísticos e não artísticos. Objetivo: Evidenciar o caráter ideológico do retrato. Resultados obtidos: As formas do retrato determinam seus significados estéticos e plásticos, integrados aos outros âmbitos da vida, por exemplo, o retrato moderno tem formas modernas, enquanto o retrato clássico e acadêmico tem formas clássicas e acadêmicas

Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, 1999.

The seventeenth century saw a large increase in family-related portrait materials, including group family portraits, family portrait collections, and family memorial albums. In this thesis, I contend with the meanings and functions of family portraits created in the Netherlands in an attempt to illuminate the motives behind the rise in the number of portraits of the family during this period. I focus on the ways in which Dutch families utilised portraiture as a vehicle for constructing personal and national identity. In an age of extraordinary economic success, religious tension, and political upheaval, portraits of the members of the expanding Dutch ‘middle class’, who had the means and the desire to commission them, reveal a conscious inclination to define and substantiate a fashioned identity as the new urban elite of a Republic in the making. My study assesses family portraits as sites where identity and changing notions of selfhood were envisioned and performed. The shifting notions of ‘family’, and the increasing popularity of commissioning portraits seems to signal attempts to configure and imagine their relationship to Dutch society. I propose that the amount of portraits related to the family commissioned alongside an exploration of and struggle with identity is a symptom of the anxiety surrounding politics, religion, and social changes, for which the family often served as a metaphor. New perspectives on portrait theory and identity, especially those of Ann Jensen Adams and Joanna Woodall, contributed to the shaping of this thesis, particularly as a means to comprehend how portraits functioned in the lives of families. There are four chapters that make up the body of this thesis. In each chapter, I focus on specific works of art chosen for their suitability in highlighting certain concepts and anxieties about identity and the family in its cultural context at their extremes.

Dans cette étude, nous examinons le développement du portrait peint à l’époque hellénistique et romaine dans une aire géographique étendue qui couvre la Grèce continental, l’Italie du Sud et les régions d’Égypte où la civilisation gréco-romaine fut présente. Étudier la peinture des portraits, conservée sous une forme très lacunaire, exige deux méthodes parallèles : l’approche de la théorie par les sources écrites, ainsi que la constitution d’un corpus archéologique des œuvres conservées. Notre but est d’organiser la documentation pour mettre en évidence certains dossiers utilisant une approche analytique, susceptible d’initier une discussion sur la construction des notions qui fabriquent le portrait antique. Le portrait peint est vu à la lumière d’une documentation textuelle enrichie et se croise avec les images que notre conception reconnaît sur les monuments peints, comme des représentations qui expriment la relation étroite entre le modèle original et sa figuration picturale. / Object of this research is the study of the development of portrait painting in the Hellenistic and Roman period through the monuments from continental Greece, South Italy and the areas of Egypt, where the Greco-Roman civilization was present. The study of ancient portrait painting, which is preserved in a very fragmentary form, demands a double approach: the study of the theory through the literary documentation and the display of an archeological catalogue through the preserved monuments. Aim of this research, is to organize the documents using an analytical approach, witch initiates a discussion of concepts that contributes to the construction of notions of the ancient portrait. The painting of portraits is seen through a comparison of a textual enriched documentation, and the painted images, that our conception recognizes as representations, expressing the close relationship between the original model and its pictorial representation.