Portraying Friendship by the Book: An Example from the Erasmus Circle

Abstract This article responds to the philosopher Alexander Nehamas’ argument that “no gesture, look, or bodily disposition, no attitude, feeling, or emotion, no action and no situation is associated with friendship firmly enough to make its representation a matter for the eye.” The article proposes...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, Richard Hughes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Brill 2021
In: Erasmus studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-199
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
TJ Modern history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Friendship
B Book
B Portrait
B Humanism
B Painting
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1772792098
003 DE-627
005 20220221183108.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 211008s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1163/18749275-04102002  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1772792098 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1772792098 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)1069817252  |0 (DE-627)822821885  |0 (DE-576)429510780  |4 aut  |a Gibson, Richard Hughes 
109 |a Gibson, Richard Hughes 
245 1 0 |a Portraying Friendship by the Book: An Example from the Erasmus Circle 
264 1 |c 2021 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Abstract This article responds to the philosopher Alexander Nehamas’ argument that “no gesture, look, or bodily disposition, no attitude, feeling, or emotion, no action and no situation is associated with friendship firmly enough to make its representation a matter for the eye.” The article proposes a “humanist exception” to Nehamas’ general rule. Building on Lorna Hutson’s argument that humanism “textualized” friendship, I contend that in the early modern period scholars and artists associated with humanism were engaged in the development of a set of recognizable signs of friendship connected to the distinctive humanist culture of the book and associated activities of reading, writing, and circulating texts. The article offers a case study of Quentin Metsys’ diptych of Erasmus and Pieter Gillis (1517) and then applies the lessons gleaned from that work to a picture that Nehamas cites as evidence of his claim, Jacopo Pontormo’s Two Men with a Passage from Cicero’s “On Friendship” (ca. 1522). Both pictures, I contend, not only depict friendship but also promote humanist ideals of friendship to the viewer. 
601 |a Erasmus 
650 4 |a Portrait 
650 4 |a Painting 
650 4 |a Book 
650 4 |a Humanism 
650 4 |a Friendship 
652 |a NCA:TJ:VA 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Erasmus studies  |d Leiden : Brill, 2014  |g 41(2021), 2, Seite 182-199  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)790227231  |w (DE-600)2776061-3  |w (DE-576)409475025  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:41  |g year:2021  |g number:2  |g pages:182-199 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1163/18749275-04102002  |x Resolving-System  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u https://brill.com/view/journals/eras/41/2/article-p182_4.xml  |x Verlag  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mteo 
936 u w |d 41  |j 2021  |e 2  |h 182-199 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3985238901 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1772792098 
LOK |0 005 20220221183108 
LOK |0 008 211008||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2021-10-07#C952EA665D8D9C42745D70D949CBE86BA0CB201B 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a zota 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442053909  |a TJ 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442053844  |a VA 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442052465  |a NCA 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
REL |a 1 
SUB |a REL