Late Gothic Portraiture: The Prioress and Philippa
- Author / Editor
- Fredell, Joel.
Late Gothic Portraiture: The Prioress and Philippa
- Published
- Chaucer Review 23 (1989): 181-91.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of an identifiable late-Gothic portrait technique can be seen by comparing one of the most familiar portraits of GP--the Prioress--with a roughly contemporary sculptural portrait of Philippa of Hainault. These late-Gothic portraits represent a dialogue in which the creator of the portrait gives a (potentially ironic) respectful representation to the subject's attempts to fulfill high-Gothic abstract "types."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Prioress and Her Tale.