Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the world of Elizabethan art : painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth I
"This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most impo...
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]
: Yale Univ. Press
, 2014
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension Rezension |
| مواد ذات صلة: | Rezensiert in:
[Rezension von: Elizabeth Goldring, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabeth. Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I] |
| ملاحظات المؤلف: | Elizabeth Goldring |
| الملخص: | "This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester's picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume's pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images from private collections, never before reproduced in color. "-- |
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| وصف مادي: | XIX, 380 S. zahlr. Ill. 27 cm |
| ردمك: | 9780300192247 |
