Depictions of the three orders and estates around the year 1500 / Tomislav Vignjević.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vignjević, Tomislav, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This volume highlights the copious and various depictions of the three orders of society during the Late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Early Modern Period. It discusses the origins and development of the trifunctional division into the orders of the oratores, bellatores and laboratores, and the abundantly preserved visual material, which proves that this scheme was one of the most widespread ideological foundations of European societies at that time. Late Gothic and Renaissance depictions of the three orders of society can be found in different mediums, from woodcuts to wall paintings, and were produced by important artists such as J. Fouquet and Pieter Bruegel, as well as anonymous painters. The vast numbers of preserved examples of this topic confirm the significance and strength of this iconographic theme at the end of the Middle Ages.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Definitions of the Estates in Society

The Three Orders

The Depictions of the Three Orders

Two Examples from the High Middle Ages

The Illustrations in Pronosticatio in latino by Johannes Lichtenberger and Their Influence

The Depictions in the Translation of Boccaccio by Laurent de Premierfait

The Estates in the Works of Albrecht Dürer and in His Age

Other Depictions of the Three Estates

Alternative Depictions of the Divisions of the Estates

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3700-5

OCLC:

1183030510