Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020
Abstract
The article examines his known portrait from 1517 and studies the included text elements (parenthesis) and musca depicta, primarily with help of semiological analysis. Although there is a large amount of literature about the publisher's portrait, it hasn't been studied within the most obvious and obligatory genre paradigm - the European and in particular Czech Portrait paintings of the first quarter of 16th century.
Skaryna's portrait is the second precisely dated Czech portrait in the Renaissance period and the first portrait of a bourgeoisie representative.