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Portrait as Trophy: Three Imperial Busts by Leone Leoni

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Portrait as Trophy: Three Imperial Busts by Leone Leoni

The Frick Collection

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Partner:: Frick Collection
Location:: The Frick Collection
New York, NY
Event Date:: 01.30.13
Speaker:: Jonathan Marsden
Tags:: art history; painting; painter; artist; artists

Summary: Around 1555 the Duke of Alba commissioned three life-sized bronze busts by the great Italian Renaissance portraitist Leone Leoni: one of himself and the other two of the Hapsburg emperor Charles V and the emperor's son, Philip II of Spain. Though the busts depict sitters of different rank-an emperor, a king, and a duke-Leoni presents them almost identically, as armored warriors in the cause of the Counter Reformation. For more than a century they have adorned the Guard Chamber at Windsor Castle, surrounded by actual weaponry and armor. Just as victorious Romans piled up the armor of their enemies as offerings to the gods, so George IV (who acquired the busts in 1825) turned these symbols of power into trophies of war. * This lecture is made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.

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Jonathan Marsden

Jonathan Marsden has been Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art since 2010. From 1996 he worked as Deputy Surveyor with curatorial responsibility for the Applied Arts in all the British royal palaces. As a curator he has specialized in sculpture, and is currently working on a catalogue of European sculpture in the Royal Collection. He has published widely in this area and contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. He has contributed as curator or author to numerous exhibitions at The Queen's Galleries at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, most recently Victoria & Albert: Art & Love in 2010.

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01.: Introduction

04 min 29 sec

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02.: Journey of the Imperial Busts of Leone Leoni

05 min 01 sec

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03.: Intention of the Busts and How They Have Been Received Overtime

02 min 17 sec

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04.: Commission by the Duke of Alba

01 min 36 sec

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05.: Charles V (1500-1558)

04 min 07 sec

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06.: Philip II (1527-1598)

01 min 58 sec

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07.: Duke of Alba (1507-1582)

01 min 41 sec

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08.: The Use of Armor in Portraiture

03 min 55 sec

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09.: Categories of Armor

04 min 34 sec

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10.: Badges on the Armor

02 min 13 sec

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11.: How the Duke of Alba Wanted the Busts to Appear

02 min 20 sec

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12.: Tracking Possession of the Imperial Busts

07 min 27 sec

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13.: Portraiture as Trophy

04 min 09 sec

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14.: Q&A

05 min 44 sec

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The Meaning Behind the Use of Armor in Portraiture

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Jonathan Marsden, Director of the Royal Collection, analyzes the use of armor in portraiture. While art historians have claimed armor was used to portray military might and masculinity, Marsden explains that because of the cost of armor, it was more used to portray wealth.
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