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Fortuniano
Sanvitale, at the start of the seventeenth century, painted
a self-portrait which could be considered as emblematic of the
cultural climate of an era in which portrait painting assumed
a great deal of value, not merely as a testimonial to social
prestige, but also as the psychological and symolic representation
of the subject's spirit.
Intimate portraits with family members or pets are from this
period. There are, in particular, some famous examples executed
by some of the most famous painters of the Italian Renaissance.The
multimedia installation recreates, starting from Fortuniano's
self-portrait, a narrative route through a virtual gallery of
portraits in which the type of sixteenth century portrait is
analysed, as a mirror of the virtue of the subject.
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