Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court

Summary: "As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham's patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship." (cover - p. 4).

Record details

ISBN: 3050059087
ISBN: 9783050059082
ISBN: 9781306488068
ISBN: 1306488060
ISBN: 305006255X
ISBN: 9783050062556
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)
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Publisher: Berlin : Akademie, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012