Casting the Real - Reproduction, Translation and Interpretation in Petrach's Time

In keeping with Dominic Olariu’s La genèse de la représentation ressemblante de l’homme. Reconsidérations du portrait à partir du XIIIe siècle (Bern 2014), this international workshop looks at the the ways fourteenth-century poets, intellectuals, doctors, and artists engaged with issues of translation, casting, embalming, and quantification. It explores the contaminations between ideas of measuring, judging, and representation while considering the similarities between concepts of truth, virtue, and likeness.

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