Wearing the Hat of an Other: Alterity and Self-Fashioning in Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's Oriental Heads

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dc.contributor.advisorHarper, James
dc.contributor.authorSabitt, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-21T16:54:34Z
dc.date.available2016-11-21T16:54:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-21
dc.description.abstractIn the late 1640s, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione produced two series of etchings, which historians have named his Oriental Heads, depicting a variety of figures in exotic headgear. The persistence of Oriental headdresses throughout the series suggests a pervasive interest in costume on the part of both Castiglione and his society. In the seventeenth-century Western European imagination, the turbaned figure represented the epitome of alterity: the Ottoman Turk. Signed “CASTIGLIONE, GENOVESE,” the etchings reveal the artist’s important Genoese origins as a part of his artistic identity. Castiglione’s eccentric tendencies, especially in his own personal mode of dress, coupled with the prevalence of exotic costume in the Oriental Heads speaks to the artist’s self-fashioned image as a fashionable, yet controversial eccentric persona. These etchings were tools to attract potential patrons, encourage buyers to purchase the etchings, and above all, to fashion his artistic identity in the international art center of Rome.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20673
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAlterityen_US
dc.subjectCastiglioneen_US
dc.subjectOrientalen_US
dc.subjectOtheren_US
dc.subjectSelf-fashioningen_US
dc.subjectTurbanen_US
dc.titleWearing the Hat of an Other: Alterity and Self-Fashioning in Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's Oriental Heads
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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