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Portraiture and Mnemonics in Early Modern Italy: Connecting and Remembering book cover

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Portraiture and Mnemonics in Early Modern Italy Connecting and Remembering

By Rebecca M. Howard Copyright 2026
206 Pages 22 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how certain early modern Italian portraits sought to directly engage the minds and memories of their viewers. Analyzing portraits made between the mid-Quattrocento and the mid-Cinquecento and by artists largely trained and working in the central and northern Italian peninsula, the case studies here demonstrate how these artworks succeeded in preserving both the external... Read more

 

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1.     Introduction to the Early Modern Italian Portrait: Connecting and Remembering

            Part I: Connecting                             

2.     Dissecting the Early Modern Portrait: Science and Bodily Metaphor

3.     Istoria of the Mind: The Albertian Interlocutor Teaches its Portrait Narrative

            Part II: Remembering                        

4.     Impressed in Wax: Sense Impressions, Portraits, and the Physicality of Memory

5.     The Architectural Mnemonic: Founding and Constructing the Portrait’s Memory House

 

6.     Concluding Remarks       

Bibliography

Index              

 

 

Biography

Rebecca M. Howard is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, USA. Her research focuses on the topics of early modern Italian portraiture, memory, mnemonic devices, and expressions of identity.

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