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Uomini Illustri: the revival of the author portrait in renaissance Florence
(1993)This study examines the revival of author portraits in the humanist book of fifteenth century Florence. With roots in the classical tradition, the placement of a portrait of the author at the beginning of a text survived ... -
"Your body, O Empress, is a treasure of marvelous qualities": representations of Middle Byzantine empresses (780-1081)
(2004)This dissertation concerns representations of empresses in Byzantium between 780 and 1081. Although empresses had limited power and authority in Byzantium, they constituted an essential facet of the vision and experience ...