{"product_id":"the-embedded-portrait-christopher-s-wood-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher S. Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069124426X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691244266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.79h x 7.72w x 1.18d","brand":"Christopher S. Wood","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44169787539711,"sku":"9780691244266","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43380d88-f748-4aaf-869a-ba6d57cc9eb3.jpg?v=1689654918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-embedded-portrait-christopher-s-wood-9780691244266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}