근세 초상화에 나타난 서양복식의 상징적 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

This research examines the changes and progress of portraits through such painters as Hans Holbein the Younger in the Renaissance, and Peter Paul Rubens, Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt, in the Baroque, and Francois Boucher in the Rococo. The symbolic characteristics are divided into power and wealth and the spirit of the times. As the result of examination of the symbolic characteristics which is classified by power and wealth and the spirit of the times. These symbols were involved in costumes that included the desire for showing off. Particularly, costume in a society which has different classes becomes the symbol of rank and stratum of society, so that costume is an indicator of power, social position, and wealth. It is believed that the costumes of Henry the Eighth who was a man of power in the Renaissance and Marie de Mdedici who was the queen of Henry the Fourth, were resplendent and coercive by overemphasizing human body and brilliant decoration in not only making a display of their power of absolute monarchy and great wealth, but also parading dignity and authority, in order to show their strong and steady power as ruler. The seventeenth century catered for the period of enlightenment. The protestants who held the reigns of the Netherlands claimed for social reform and freedom of religion, as well as participation in politics. Moreover, they were thrift and diligent for virtues while the occupation of morality was stressed. Madame de Pompadour who was Louis Fifteenth's mistress and the best supporter for the artists in that period. with a great understanding in the ideology of enlightenment. In this way, it is considered that Henry the Eighth, Bourgeois of the Netherlands and Madame de Pompadour cleared showed ideology of each time period majestically, steadily or with intellectual and functional aspects.