Title: Art of the portrait : masterpieces of European portrait-painting, 1420-1670 /
Authors: Schneider, Norbert, 1945-; Galbraith, Iain.
Publisher: B. Taschen,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Portrait painting, European.; Portrait painting Europe.; Portrait painting 16th century Europe.; Portrait painting Europe.; Portrait painting, Renaissance Europe.
Contents: The great age of the portrait -- Origins of the portrait -- Early portrait of a ruler -- Portraits of Renaissance women -- The psychological portrait -- Portraits and caricatures -- Portraits of Renaissance humanists -- Mythologising portraits -- Portraits of popes and cardinals -- Portraits of artists and collectors -- Artists' self-portraits -- Portrait of a friend -- "Teste composte" -- Portraits of 16th and 17th-century rulers -- Marriage and family portraits -- Portraits of children -- Dutch Civic Guard portraits -- Anatomy lessons -- Portraits of fools and dwarfs -- Notes -- Biographies.