Visualizing the Promise to the Serenissima in Venetian Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Documents: Image, Text, and Ritual

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Abstract

This essay analyzes the relationship between texts and images in fourteenth-century promissioni ducali (promises of the doges) and the capitolari de’consiglieri del doge (bye-laws of the doge’s councilors) and traces the continuity and change of the imagery during the century in which illuminations to these types of Venetian documents are first found. Firstly, it is argued that the imagery stressed the importance of observing the oath and of the moral character of the person holding the office of doge or councilor. Secondly, it is suggested that there were no great variations in the compositions and iconography of the miniatures, but that there was a tendency to devote more space on the page to ducal and councilor portraits and, in promissioni, to objects displaying familial affiliation, in later illuminated documents than in earlier ones. Thirdly, it is argued that the fourteenth-century images in Venetian illuminated documents reflected the broader context in which they played a part. In the case of the promissioni, there are motifs drawn from ducal inauguration ceremonies and parallels to the imagery of monumental paintings in the Doge’s Palace. Finally, it is suggested that the texts, images and rituals associated with the doge and his councilors could be understood as depicting the ideal of the subordination of individual interests to the advantage of the republic.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelIlluminierte Urkunden, Beiträge aus Diplomatik, Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities, : Beiträge aus Diplomatik, Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities,
RedaktørerMarkus Gneiß, Gabriele Bartz
Antal sider14
UdgivelsesstedKöln
ForlagBoehlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG
Publikationsdato2018
Sider319-332
Artikelnummer319
ISBN (Trykt)9783412515348
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-412-51238-5
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018
Begivenhed"Illuminerte Urkunden. Von den Rändern zweier Disziplinen ins Herz der Digital Humanities/Illuminated Charters. From the Margins of two Disciplines to the Core of Digital Humanities" - Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv , Wien, Østrig
Varighed: 12 sep. 201614 sep. 2016

Konference

Konference"Illuminerte Urkunden. Von den Rändern zweier Disziplinen ins Herz der Digital Humanities/Illuminated Charters. From the Margins of two Disciplines to the Core of Digital Humanities"
LokationHaus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv
Land/OmrådeØstrig
ByWien
Periode12/09/201614/09/2016
NavnBeihefte zum Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel- und Wappenkunde
Vol/bind16

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