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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'.

The Likeness of the King

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780226658797, 978-0226658797
      ISBN10: 0226658791

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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'.

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