Title: A Virgin's Face: Antiquarianism in Twelfth-Century Art
Abstract:This paper is dedicated to Carl Nordenfalk, in whose honor its original version was presented at a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976.Some years ago, Carl Nordenfalk in a study of portr...This paper is dedicated to Carl Nordenfalk, in whose honor its original version was presented at a symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976.Some years ago, Carl Nordenfalk in a study of portraits of Evangelists in late Anglo-Saxon art made a passing reference to a portrait of Saint Matthew in a Copenhagen manuscript of the eleventh century, illuminated in what is loosely called the Winchester Style. He wrote that this miniature was in all likelihood a free copy of the corresponding portrait in the Lindisfarne Gospels of about A.D. 700.1 I was happy to read this, for it provided highly authoritative support for a view I had long held: The eleventh-century painter of the Copenhagen Gospels must have deliberately sought out the venerable book written and adorned “for God and for Saint Cuthbert” at the Monastery of Lindisfarne three centuries earlier. The artist took from that book one specific element and included it in his own work in the manner of a quotation.2 Referring to the Matthew portrait in Copenhagen many years ago, I used the term “antiquarianism.”3Read More
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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