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This thesis combines the scholarship on both fields of cameos and portraiture in order to analyze portraiture containing fictive representations of cameos. The focus of this thesis is not on the costume of the Italian Renaissance. Therefore, the portraits under investigation all feature the sitter holding the cameo rather than wearing it. In addition, the portraits all depict contemporary Renaissance ... read morefigures rather than mythological or Biblical subjects. By exploring and analyzing this group of portraits, this thesis answers the question: how did the representation of a cameo function in a portrait in which the sitter is holding the cameo?read less
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