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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812741903321

Autore

Hille Christiane

Titolo

Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court / / Christiane Hille

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Akademie Verlag, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

3-05-006255-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

941.06

Soggetti

Masques, English - History and criticism

Great Britain History James I, 1603-1625

Great Britain History Charles I, 1625-1649

Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century

Great Britain Kings and rulers Portraits

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was submitted as a PhD thesis to Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2008." (page IX).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- One: Spatial Representations of the Royal Body at Court: The Masques of James I -- Two: 'The Devil take all of you, Dance!': Bodily Distinction in the Jacobean Court Masque and Portrait -- Three: 'Antwerpian Rubens' best skill made him soare': The Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Court of Charles I -- Back Matter

Sommario/riassunto

"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).