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  1. The book half open : humanist friendship in Holbein's portrait of Hermann von Wedigh III
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Holbein, Hans; Buch <Motiv>; Terentius Afer, Publius; Andria; Rezeption; Erasmus, Desiderius; Adagia; Freundschaft; Humanismus
    Other subjects: Books in paintings; Classical reception; Northern Renaissance
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    In: Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23, Berlin : ICI Press, 2022, S. 290-310

  2. The book half open : humanist friendship in Holbein's portrait of Hermann von Wedigh III
    Published: 2022

    A small, blind-tooled volume sits on a table covered in green baize: one clasp is open, the other is closed; and a slip of paper emerges from it reading 'Veritas odium parit' ('truth breeds hatred'). This detail occurs in the foreground of a portrait... more

     

    A small, blind-tooled volume sits on a table covered in green baize: one clasp is open, the other is closed; and a slip of paper emerges from it reading 'Veritas odium parit' ('truth breeds hatred'). This detail occurs in the foreground of a portrait by Hans Holbein of a young man identified as the Cologne patrician Hermann von Wedigh III (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). A study of the physical features of the book and of the history of the brief text - actually an ancient and then Erasmian adage - leads to a new interpretation of the painting in the context of humanist friendship. The book is seen to be a multivalent simile for the work of art authored by the artist as well as for the sitter himself, raising questions about the implications for these of a medium that can be opened and closed. The half-open condition of the book is understood to reflect the complementary pressures of openness and closedness, accessibility and intimacy, that characterized the Renaissance republic of letters.

     

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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 750; 800
    Subjects: Holbein; Hans; Buch; Terentius Afer; Publius; Andria; Rezeption; Erasmus; Desiderius; Adagia; Freundschaft; Humanismus
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    creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess