{"product_id":"the-embedded-portrait-giotto-giottino-angelico-9780691244266","title":"The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new study of the early Renaissance portrait\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men--not only clergy but also laity--introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings. Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared space with the holy narratives. The portraits mimicked the first worshippers of Christ: Mary, the Three Magi, Mary Magdalene. At the same time, they modeled, for modern viewers, ideal involvement in the emotion-laden stories. In \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher S. Wood traces these incursions of the real and profane into Florentine sacred painting between Giotto and Fra Angelico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe portraits not only intruded upon a sacred space, but also intervened in an artwork. The pressure exerted by the modern interlopers--their lives and experiences, implied by their portraits--threatened the formal closure that had served as a powerful symbolic form of the pact between God and humans. \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs this art historical drama from the point of view of the artists rather than the patrons. Following clues left by Vasari, the book assigns a leading role to the painter Giottino, or \"little Giotto.\" Little-known today but highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of painting that was later realized by Fra Angelico through his own innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeeking not to stabilize the artworks but to extend their reach, the interpretations offered in \u003ci\u003eThe Embedded Portrait \u003c\/i\u003ere-create and update the psychic and libidinal energies that gave rise to these works in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher S. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is professor in the Department of German at New York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA History of Art History\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton); \u003ci\u003eAlbrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eForgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also the author, with Alexander Nagel, of \u003ci\u003eAnachronic Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509310329106,"sku":"9780691244266","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c08b56f7-71b9-455a-a32c-885b5ea6fb28.jpg?v=1730894992","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-embedded-portrait-giotto-giottino-angelico-9780691244266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}