'Medieval face'
' The Medieval Face” is the title of an exhibition which was held recently at London's National Portrait Gallery. Taken almost entirely from tomb effigies in churches and cathedrals throughout England and from the Plantagenet tombs in Fontevrault Abbey in the Loire district of France, the carved faces under the spotlights gave the illusion of staring at the visitors. The effigies were mainly of gilt-bronze. The exhibition covered the 12th to the 16th centuries and showed how portraiture evolved from stylised representation to the charac-teri-ation of the Renaissance An interesting aspect of early effigies was the lack of differentiation between male and female faces. Richard I and his mother. Eleanor of Aquitaine, have identical faces, sex onh denoted by the king’s beard In fact most of these m<*dieva faces have marked resemblance*-, rather severe empressions, straight noses and almondshaped eyes.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33875, 21 June 1975, Page 12
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141'Medieval face' Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33875, 21 June 1975, Page 12
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