Mamlina, Aleksandra B. The Lombard Kingdom in the Visual Culture of the Visconti House

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Title The Lombard Kingdom in the Visual Culture of the Visconti House
Author email amamlina@gmail.com
About author Mamlina, Aleksandra Borisovna — Ph. D. student. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Pokrovsky boulevard, 11, 109028 Moscow, Russian Federation; Senior Lecturer. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991. ORCID: 0000-0003-1738-5624
In the section Western European Medieval Art DOI10.18688/aa2111-05-41
Year 2021 Volume 11 Pages 526–536
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.003.5 (450); 94(450).05; 711.424 Index BBK 63.3(0) 4; 85.113(3)
Abstract

In traditional historiography, Milan of the Renaissance still remains in the shadow of Florence, because against its background it looks like a retrograde, a bulwark of medieval knightly and other ideals. Through a combination of visual and written sources, it is necessary to review existing clichés. Despite a highly beneficial impact of the methods introduced into historical research by a phenomenon of Visual turn, and their successful application by an increasing number of professional historians, some theoretical questions due to the specifics of working with visual sources as historical evidence require further reflection. The late Middle Ages and the Renaissance are traditionally associated with the flowering of art and a unique court culture. However, the methodology of visual research offers to consider visual sources not so much from the point of view of aesthetics, but to understand how ideas about knowledge and power have been changed through visualization and verbalization strategies.
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Reference Mamlina, Aleksandra B. The Lombard Kingdom in the Visual Culture of the Visconti House. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 11. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2021, pp. 526–536. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2111-05-41
Publication Article language russian
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