Bodies of Knowledge Encased in Armor: Convergences of Fifteenth-Century Art and Literature in the Thun-Hohenstein Album (original) (raw)

Bodies of Knowledge Encased in Armor: Convergences of Fifteenth-Century Art and Literature in the Thun-Hohenstein Album

This talk explores how the visual and textual traditions that shaped a set of fifteenth-century drawings inserted into the bound collection of drawings known as the Thun-Hohenstein album imbued the armored bodies they depict with meanings familiar to period viewers, and considers how this confluence of sources helped to establish pictorial strategies that shaped representations and receptions of the armored body. For more, see the attached abstract.