The Face of the City: Civic Portraiture and Civic Identity in Early Modern England
Our conventional understanding of English portraiture from the age of Holbein and Henry VIII on to Reubens, VanDyck and Charles I clings to the mainstream images of royalty and aristocracy and to the succession of known practitioners of 'Renaissance' portraiture. Projection of the royal or aristocratic persona, the self-fashioning of the individual, remained the main objective of these works, and the steady development towards more sophisticated stylistic conventions, as imported by prominent foreign-trained artists, remains the traditional art historical context in which they have been considered.In almost every respect, the 'civic' portrait…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8907-7
- EAN: 9780719089077
- Produktnummer: 13448830
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 354 g
- Gewicht: 354
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Robert Tittler is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal
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