The art of the portrait

Contents

б The Great Age of the Portrait

30 Origins of the Portrait

48 Early Portrait of a Ruler

52 Portraits of Renaissance Women

66 The Psychological Portrait

72 Portraits and Caricatures

76 Portraits of Renaissance Humanists

92 Mythologising Portraits

96 Portraits of Popes and Cardinals

100 Portraits of Artists and Collectors

104 Artists' Self-Portraits

118 Portrait of a Friend

122 "Teste Composte"

124 Portraits of 16th and 17th-century Rulers

138 Marriage and Family Portraits

144 Portraits of Children

152 Dutch Civic Guard Portraits

158 Portraits of Regents

162 Anatomy Lessons

166 Portraits of Fools and Dwarfs

170 Notes

176 Biographies

179 Select Bibliography