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Painting and visuality in Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a sunflower

Author
Peacock, John
Document type
Article (livre)
Language
English
Book title
Dealing with the visual : art history, aesthetics and visual culture
Author (monograph)
Eck, Caroline van (Editor, Collective Author); Winters, Edward (Editor, Collective Author)
Source
Dealing with the visual : art history, aesthetics and visual culture. 2005, 109-126, 8 ill.
Publisher
Ashgate, Aldershot (gbr)
Publication country
United Kingdom
Abstract (en)
Investigates Van Dyck's painting Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (collection of the Duke of Westminster). Submits that the symbolic twinning of the flower and the artist equates with a world view connecting the King with the sun, and his servant with a heliotropic flower, metaphorically linked together in the image of the chain. Considers the theological and philosophical bases of such representations in the writings of Henry Hawkins and Nicholas of Cusa. The ways in which the sunflower was depicted in botanical books and devotional texts or emblem books shows that they cannot simply be interpreted in terms of emblematics or iconography but reflect a theory of visuality grounded in a religious ontology in which all beings exist because they are seen by God. Concludes that Van Dyck's self-portrait is the visual statement that the sunflower is not only a visio Dei but also a visio pictoris, a painter's vision.
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DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024204

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