Piero della Francesca, Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino발음듣기
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Piero della Francesca, Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
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She had just died and this was a commemorative portrait this is a way that he could remember his his wife.발음듣기
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We think it was actually painted by Piero della Francesca, possibly from a death mask that had been made of her.발음듣기
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It reminds me of the fact that we're so used to photographs being taken of us from the time we're very little.발음듣기
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It's important to remember that Federico da Montefeltro actually brought northern painters, that is Flemish painters down to his court.발음듣기
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In fact Piero who is an Italian painter seems to have borrowed that northern interest perhaps not only in the high forehead but also in the great intricacy and specificity of the landscape.발음듣기
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One of the other characteristics that I also think is so interesting here is the very strict profile on which both figures are rendered.발음듣기
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This is based on a coinage from Ancient Rome which, by the way, the humanists of Montefeltro's court and other humanist courts at this time were actively collecting.발음듣기
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When you think about a rendering of Caesar or even on modern coinage, you generally have a perfect profile, and you see that here.발음듣기
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The one interesting detail is that the portraits are almost always facing right and here the duke is facing his wife, facing left.발음듣기
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Actually we know that he had suffered wounds on the right side of his face, he was missing an eye.발음듣기
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But there is that formality and power that comes from the profile pose but also from the bird-eyes view of the landscape so that the figures tower over the landscape.발음듣기
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That's right. On the back of Battista Sforza's portrait we see her borne in a triumphal chariot surrounded by figures who represent her virtues.발음듣기
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Now, the classical inscription refers specifically to the vitues that are represented on those triumphal chariots.발음듣기
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One example can be seen on the duke's chariot which shows facing us, sitting, but full-frontal a personification of justice.발음듣기
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It's really a fanciful landscape that they are in as well there is this real sense of imagination an attempt to invent a kind of iconography, that ennobles the figures represented.발음듣기
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