{"title":"Who Was Ginevra de' Benci? Leonardo's Portrait and Its Sitter Recontextualized","authors":"Mary D. Garrard","doi":"10.2307/20067109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrates that, contrary to present scholarly opinion, Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benciwas probably not commissioned by Bernardo Bembo. Close analysis of the painting (including reconsideration of its original format), and of the dating of Bembo's manuscripts bearing an emblem resembling the portrait's reverse, leads the author to reorder the chronology of Bembo's connection with Ginevra's portrait and to propose that Bembo claimed the preexisting emblem of his Florentine platonic beloved for political purposes. Ginevra's own role in the afterlife of her portrait is considered, in the light of new biographical information about her and in the context of women's history in fifteenth-century Italy.","PeriodicalId":43492,"journal":{"name":"Artibus et Historiae","volume":"27 1","pages":"23-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/20067109","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Artibus et Historiae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/20067109","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study demonstrates that, contrary to present scholarly opinion, Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benciwas probably not commissioned by Bernardo Bembo. Close analysis of the painting (including reconsideration of its original format), and of the dating of Bembo's manuscripts bearing an emblem resembling the portrait's reverse, leads the author to reorder the chronology of Bembo's connection with Ginevra's portrait and to propose that Bembo claimed the preexisting emblem of his Florentine platonic beloved for political purposes. Ginevra's own role in the afterlife of her portrait is considered, in the light of new biographical information about her and in the context of women's history in fifteenth-century Italy.
期刊介绍:
Artibus et Historiae is a journal dedicated to the visual arts, published by IRSA Publishing House. The lavishly illustrated articles cover a broad range of subjects, including photography and film, as well as traditional topics of scholarly art research. Artibus et Historiae particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies - art history in conjunction with other humanistic fields, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, or literature - and unconventional approaches. Thus it is hoped that the current trends in art history will be well represented in our issues. Artibus et Historiae appears twice a year, in hardback. The articles are in one of four languages: English, Italian, German, or French, at the author"s discretion.