Miniatures were a popular medium of early modern material court culture and representation, symbolising social, dynastic or political affiliation while, at the same time, evoking a special bond between wearer and object. They were used as diplomatic gifts, as commemorative tokens of highly emotional events such as births, marriages and deaths, as substitutes for absent or deceased persons as well as proxy in marriage negotiations and betrothal ceremonies. By integrating these small objects – as a picture in a picture – into large-scale portraits, they were directly contextualised with the sitter, publicly conveying personal or political messages, thus becoming interactive telling objects. Set in sumptuous jewellery, as pendants, brooches or...
This thesis reconsiders a highly mobile form of portraiture, the early modern portrait medal, by exa...
This dissertation examines the roles that portraits of artists played in the social commerce of frie...
Miniature knives in the shape of a sword in its bone sheath are known from several Western provinces...
This paper examines a group of artifacts that are paradigmatic for images worn on the body: the port...
This paper examines a group of artifacts that are paradigmatic for images worn on the body: the port...
This thesis is the first extended analysis of the effects and meanings of size and scale in the sixt...
Roeber, Catharine DannThis thesis examines the important social, cultural, and symbolic roles that p...
In Greek antiquity, miniature objects are widely attested in the archaeological record. They appear ...
Printed in 1600, probably at the same period of time when Nicholas Hilliard was writing The Arte of ...
This thesis re-positions the portrait miniature within its original social and cultural milieu. To-d...
How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of t...
À partir d’un corpus iconographique de cent vingt-sept miniatures issues de quatre-vingt-un manuscri...
With a corpus of one hundred and twenty-seven illuminations, from eighty-one manuscripts painted in ...
This issue of ‘Das Mittelalter’ explores the voice of small things.2 We approach artefacts that are ...
The interpretation of miniature objects has frequently focused on depositional activities, yet the w...
This thesis reconsiders a highly mobile form of portraiture, the early modern portrait medal, by exa...
This dissertation examines the roles that portraits of artists played in the social commerce of frie...
Miniature knives in the shape of a sword in its bone sheath are known from several Western provinces...
This paper examines a group of artifacts that are paradigmatic for images worn on the body: the port...
This paper examines a group of artifacts that are paradigmatic for images worn on the body: the port...
This thesis is the first extended analysis of the effects and meanings of size and scale in the sixt...
Roeber, Catharine DannThis thesis examines the important social, cultural, and symbolic roles that p...
In Greek antiquity, miniature objects are widely attested in the archaeological record. They appear ...
Printed in 1600, probably at the same period of time when Nicholas Hilliard was writing The Arte of ...
This thesis re-positions the portrait miniature within its original social and cultural milieu. To-d...
How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of t...
À partir d’un corpus iconographique de cent vingt-sept miniatures issues de quatre-vingt-un manuscri...
With a corpus of one hundred and twenty-seven illuminations, from eighty-one manuscripts painted in ...
This issue of ‘Das Mittelalter’ explores the voice of small things.2 We approach artefacts that are ...
The interpretation of miniature objects has frequently focused on depositional activities, yet the w...
This thesis reconsiders a highly mobile form of portraiture, the early modern portrait medal, by exa...
This dissertation examines the roles that portraits of artists played in the social commerce of frie...
Miniature knives in the shape of a sword in its bone sheath are known from several Western provinces...