Abstract:

This essay explores how the visual culture of the portrait in the early Tudor period, epitomized by Hans Holbein's work, informed and intensified the self-examination, pictorialism, and textual play of Sir Thomas Wyatt's "epistolary satire" to John Pointz, a fellow courtier. Specifically, I argue that Wyatt's ambivalent self-description in this overtly self-righteous poem reimagines the memento mori—a visual reminder of vulnerability and death, often incorporated in portraiture—to deliberately undermine his Stoic self-assertion and to rebuke the reader's credulity.

中文翻译：

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斗篷与木屐：都铎肖像画和托马斯·怀亚特爵士的“我拥有约翰·波因茨”

摘要：

本文探讨了都铎王朝早期肖像的视觉文化，以汉斯·霍尔拜因的作品为代表，如何影响和强化了托马斯·怀亚特爵士对同僚约翰·波因茨的“书信体讽刺”的自我审​​视、绘画主义和文本游戏。具体来说，我认为怀亚特在这首公然自以为是的诗中矛盾的自我描述重新想象了死亡的象征——一种脆弱和死亡的视觉提醒，经常融入肖像画中——故意破坏他斯多葛式的自我主张，并斥责读者的轻信。