RSA 2018 Cardinal Portrait programme (original) (raw)

Organised by Piers Baker-Bates and Irene Brooke Cardinal portraits have been analysed primarily in terms of the artists who painted them or within the broader genre of portraiture. No more profound investigation of these as a specific phenomenon has ever been attempted. The questions surrounding the production, collection and status of the Cardinal portrait are particularly relevant in the light of the forthcoming Brill Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal, as well as several recent exhibitions dedicated to powerful early modern cardinals like Amboise, Granvelle and Wolsey. Our session aims to cover a variety of portrait media and will address a range of issues surrounding the evolution and development of the typology of the Cardinal portrait.