Social status, courtesy and etiquette
(reflections on Jan van Eyck’s canvas The Arnolfini couple)
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2021.26163Keywords:
The Arnofini Portrait, Renaissance painting., Bourgeoisie., Commercialism, Civility.Abstract
In this interdisciplinary article, merging History of Mentalities and Plastic Arts, we approach the painting The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441), as an illustration suggestive of the birth of Modern Europe and the bourgeois family, in Fourteenth century revival. Through the analysis of gestures, clothes, furniture and decorative objects, fixed by van Eyck, it is possible to verify how the bourgeoisie became the owner of power, occupied by the former nobility, from which he would inherit customs and labels. The union of the coat of arms with the bag, as distinctive symbols of power, implied the search for codes of civility and etiquette that would balance the values of public life and the demands of private life.
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