Unknown women memorialised: portrait medals in Renaissance Italy

纪念无名女性：文艺复兴时期意大利的肖像奖章

• 批准号: 2606562
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2606562
• 关键词: Unknown; women; memorialised; portrait; medals

Portrait medals, highly fashionable from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, are one of the most overlooked art forms of the Italian Renaissance despite surviving in large quantities and possessing considerable potential for advancing our understanding of the culture, society and values of the period.16 / 34Within this already underexplored group of objects are a body of medals which have been almost entirely neglected - those of the local, middle-class women of Renaissance Italy. By placing these medals in an historical context, this research project will seek to understand their function and meaning in relation to gender, fame and individuality. It is anticipated that the research project will demonstrate that these portrait medals do not just depict idealised, beautiful women (belle donne), but actual individuals who were commemorated because of their own personal merit and virtue. These objects provide, then, a unique opportunity to illuminate those women who might otherwise have been lost to history and, with it, allow a more nuanced understanding of gender in numismatics, art history and museum collections alike. Women and gender has been my chosen line of academic enquiry since my MA (2016-2018). For an intercollegiate module at King's College London, I wrote an essay on the final chapter of Giovanni Boccaccio's 'On Famous Women', arguing that Boccaccio realised in Queen Johanna I of Naples the model of a virtuous ruler. My MA dissertation, 'Blurring Genders and Making Decisions: The Case of Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua', used gender as an analytical category to examine a series of choices made by Isabella, contextualising her ability to participate in leadership and governance against humanist texts in the vein of Boccaccio. My research was interdisciplinary, incorporating both written documentation and material culture - including portrait medals - into my argument. On my palaeographical and codicological skills, refer to section four. Having begun to explore the potential of portrait medals as important historical sources, I received a British Numismatic Society bursary to support a placement at The British Museum. Within the Department of Coins and Medals, I gained direct experience of handling medals, including those which my project is based upon, by imaging a large body of the museum's collection of Italian lead portrait medals. I also provided support for the department's exhibition 'Witnesses - émigré medallists in Britain', from design, preparation and implementation. My knowledge of Italian is nearing an intermediate level and I continue to have lessons on a weekly basis.

15世纪到17世纪期间非常流行的肖像勋章，是意大利文艺复兴时期最被忽视的艺术形式之一，尽管它保存了大量，并且具有相当大的潜力，可以促进我们对那个时期的文化、社会和价值观的理解。34在这组尚未被充分发掘的文物中，有一组几乎完全被忽视的奖章——那些是文艺复兴时期意大利当地中产阶级妇女的奖章。通过将这些奖牌置于历史背景中，本研究项目将试图理解它们与性别、名声和个性有关的功能和意义。预计该研究项目将证明，这些肖像奖章不仅描绘了理想化的美丽女性（belle donne），而且还描绘了因个人优点和美德而受到纪念的真实个体。因此，这些物品提供了一个独特的机会，让人们了解那些可能被历史遗忘的女性，并通过它，让人们对钱币学、艺术史和博物馆藏品中的性别有了更细致的了解。自我获得硕士学位（2016-2018）以来，女性和性别一直是我选择的学术研究方向。在伦敦国王学院的一个校间模块中，我写了一篇关于乔瓦尼·薄伽丘《论名妇》最后一章的文章，认为薄伽丘在那不勒斯王后约翰娜一世身上实现了一个贤惠统治者的典范。我的硕士论文，“模糊性别和决策：伊莎贝拉·德·埃斯特的案例，曼图亚的玛切萨”，使用性别作为分析类别来检查伊莎贝拉做出的一系列选择，将她参与领导和治理的能力置于薄伽丘人文主义文本的脉络中。我的研究是跨学科的，将书面文件和物质文化（包括肖像奖章）结合到我的论点中。关于我的古生物学和法典学技能，请参阅第四节。在开始探索肖像勋章作为重要历史资料的潜力之后，我获得了英国钱币协会的奖学金，以支持我在大英博物馆的实习。在硬币和奖章部，我获得了处理奖章的直接经验，包括我的项目所依据的那些，通过对博物馆收藏的大量意大利铅肖像奖章进行成像。我还为该部门的展览“证人-英国的<s:1>移民奖章获得者”提供了从设计，准备和实施方面的支持。我的意大利语水平接近中级水平，我继续每周上一次意大利语课。