TY - JOUR
AB - Truth and Mimesis in Sexy Beasts: The Politics Byzantium: A Speaking of Hunting Portraiture in Reliquary of Saint Eighteenth-Century France Demetrios of Thessaloniki Amy Freund This essay explores the aesthetic and political potential of Laura Veneskey eighteenth-century French hunting portraiture through This essay concerns an eleventh-century reliquary an analysis of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s Henri-Camille, chevalier of Saint Demetrios that mimics the form of a (lost) de Beringhen (1722). The portrait’s eloquent deployment sixth-century ciborium in the saint’s titular basilica in of human and animal bodies furthers both the artist’s Thessaloniki. While an inscription on the reliquary and the sitter’s ambitions. Beringhen uses the portrait to declares its veracity as a copy, the object departs from the formulate a version of elite masculinity that emphasized original in signic fi ant ways. By treating these die ff rences virility, personal sovereignty, and animal instincts, as purposeful innovations, this essay challenges creating a model for political opposition to the absolute existing paradigms of authenticity in medieval copies. monarchy. Oudry uses the portrait to work out a visual It is argued that the reliquary is an iconic, poetic, and idiom of striving bodies and sensual appeal that slyly microarchitectural hybrid that confounds traditional suggests 
TI - Abstracts & Authors' Biographies
JO - Art History
DO - 10.1111/1467-8365.12439
DA - 2019-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/abstracts-authors-biographies-bWSG0FMFiA
SP - 4
EP - 7
VL - 42
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -