'Peintre de Sa Majesté Britannique'. Franz Adolph of Freenthal and his portrait of Maximilian Hamilton, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jul-sep/suchanek-freenthal-portrait-of-maximilian-hamilton" target="_blank" >http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jul-sep/suchanek-freenthal-portrait-of-maximilian-hamilton</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'Peintre de Sa Majesté Britannique'. Franz Adolph of Freenthal and his portrait of Maximilian Hamilton, Prince-Bishop of Olomouc

Original language description

This essay examines the portrait of Maximilian von Hamilton (1714-1776), the last Prince-Bishop of Olomouc/Olmütz, painted between 1769 and 1772 by Franz Adolph of Freenthal (1721-1773), a former painter to the British royal court. The study focuses in turn on three visual motifs in Hamilton's portrait: the rhetorical gestures of the sitter, his attire and the way he is depicted, and the form of presentation and the function of the painting in the ceremonial space of the princely residence. In examiningeach of these motifs, account is taken of the specific visual conventions applied in this genre, and of the contemporary rules of visual rhetoric. By referencing the classical motif of modesty and moderation from antiquity, Adolph underlined the importance of the ideal of antiquity and with it "natural" speech and behaviour. He attempted to express the spirit of antiquity by comparing contemporary clothing and rhetorical gestures to those of the orators or other public figures of antiqu

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

RIHA Journal

ISSN

2190-3328

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

červenec-září

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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