| Titre | Autoportrait et emblématique princière à la fin du Moyen Âge | |
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| Auteur | Laurent Hablot | |
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Revue | Le Moyen Age |
| Numéro | tome 122, no 1, 2016 Autoportrait et représentation de l'individu | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles. Autoportrait et représentation de l'individu |
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| Page | 67-81 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Self-Portraiture and Princely Iconography at the End of the Middle Ages In all civilizations the very purpose of an emblem is to represent a physical or moral individual with a sign, thus producing a representation of this individual through an image, a portrait in the original meaning of the word. The Middle Ages in the West also generated various systems of signs – heraldry especially, but crests, devices, and other ancillary emblematic forms as well – intended to make people and things known and recognized. The arrival of the realistic portrait – the ultimate emblem – in some way completes these successive attempts at designating the individual. The combined exploitation of these numerous signs of identity, more or less controlled by the person being represented, produced a kind of self-portrait which included a variety of facets of the remarkable being that was the medieval individual. Projection into an image, a true duplication of the self, which was often intended for self-celebration or, more accurately, as an empathic projection of spiritual significance, often allowed a prince to transcend his being, which appears to be one of the principles of self-portraiture. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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