![]() The series of portraits mirrored the different political, ideological, cultural values of courts and national states until the rise of republican governments, where the famous men portraits confirmed their specific function of exempla virtutis. The location of single portraits, or series of portraits, once hosted in homes, galleries of European courts, academies, libraries of scholars, when transferred into modern museums, inevitably losing their former significance with the loss of original context, has often acquired new characteristics. The collection of portraits in private as well as in public contexts was the peculiar expression of a cultural ritual, and a symbol of embodied memory. Since the antiquity, and up to modern times, the portraits of famous men have been a long-term topos of Western figurative art. ![]()
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