Oedipus's Riddle: Elizabethan transformation of the family portrait of Thomas More, an Appendix to "Non sum Oedipus sed Morus"
Holbein produced a drawing of Sir Thomas More and his Family which was a preparatory sketch for a larger painting. The painting was acquired by Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkron (1623-95), Archbishop of Olomouc, Moravia, and was last recorded in 1691 as being kept in the episcopal residence in Olomo...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Edinburgh University Press
[2019]
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Moreana
Anno: 2019, Volume: 56, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 133-159 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Éditions de l'Œdipe de Sénèque
B Thomas More II B Editions of Seneca's Oedipus B Jasper Heywood B Cresacre More B Thomas Roper B William Roper II |
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| Riepilogo: | Holbein produced a drawing of Sir Thomas More and his Family which was a preparatory sketch for a larger painting. The painting was acquired by Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkron (1623-95), Archbishop of Olomouc, Moravia, and was last recorded in 1691 as being kept in the episcopal residence in Olomouc; it is generally assumed that the painting was lost in the 1752 fire at the Archbishop's château in Kromeri. There are, however, five extant versions of the Family Group. The three main versions are the full-sized oil on canvas, The Family of Sir Thomas More (1592), now at Nostell Priory, and two paintings of Sir Thomas More, his Household, and Descendants: one kept at the National Portrait Gallery, the other at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There has been much discussion about the transformation from a family at prayer—as portrayed in the original drawing—to a conversation on Seneca. Based on editions of Oedipus prior to the Nostell painting, the history of More's descendants, and a cameo that belonged to More's family, this paper argues that the Elizabethan transformation is a story of conformity and non-conformity. |
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| ISSN: | 2398-4961 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Moreana
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/more.2019.0058 |