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This volume highlights the copious and various depictions of the three orders of society during the Late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the Early Modern Period. It discusses the origins and development of the trifunctional division into the orders of the oratores, bellatores and laboratores, and the abundantly preserved visual material, which proves that this scheme was one of the most widespread ideological foundations of European societies at that time. Late Gothic and Renaissance depictions of the three orders of society can be found in different mediums, from woodcuts to wall paintings, and were produced by important artists such as J. Fouquet and Pieter Bruegel, as well as anonymous painters. The vast numbers of preserved examples of this topic confirm the significance and strength of this iconographic theme at the end of the Middle Ages.

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Tomislav Vignjević graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in 1987, before going on to complete a master’s degree at the same institution in 1993. He received his doctorate at the Faculty of Postgraduate Study of Humanities in Ljubljana in 1999. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Science and Research Centre (ZRS) in Koper, Slovenia, and a Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. His main research area is late medieval, Renaissance and modern art. His work is primarily based on the iconology of political, ideological and cultural-historical aspects of art in the late Medieval and Early Modern Periods, as well as the modern era.

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