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Iconography is a branch of art history and visual science that concerns the identification and interpretation of pictorial images, describing the meaning of a work of art in contradistinction to its form. Mozart has been described as the most famous person whose true likeness is the least recognized. The golden age of portraiture began in the s with the meticulously rendered masterpieces of Jan van Eyck, and peaked in the s, by which time artists were depicting their subjects with anatomic accuracy.
By the end of the eighteenth century, the function of portraiture had changed. Yet the acceptance of these portraits, as well as more recently discovered portraits purporting to be Mozart, is less the result of provenance or connoisseurship than the fact that they are shrines at which Mozart scholars and Mozart lovers uncritically worship.
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They are representations of how we would like Mozart to look — in short they satisfy our visual biographical fancy. That most of the attested portraits of Mozart are flawed also relates to the inherently weak artistic quality of the paintings. Mozart was rendered prosaically, because his actual appearance was prosaic: His head is too small for its torso, whereas in the Lorenzoni portrait it is too large, suggesting that, as was common at the time, a stock painting of his torso was painted at a different time from that of his visage.
There are limitations to what any of the Mozart portraits can depict, especially as artists also attempted to capture his inner thoughts. Mozart portraits do not fully capture the features of his face nor the totality of his personality; they were not meant to do so, as long as they manifested an aspect of his talent and genius.
Zegers commented that in the Lorenzoni portrait Figure 2a, 2b the eyes are large and he may have been myopic. Figures 6b and 7b. Zegers suggested that the Lange portrait shows exophthalmos and proposed myopia or a shallow orbit as possible etiologies.
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