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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hille, Christiane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masques, English--History and criticism.

Masques, English.

Great Britain--History--James I, 1603-1625.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Charles I, 1625-1649.

Great Britain--Court and courtiers--History--17th century.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Portraits.

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628--Art collections.

Buckingham, George Villiers.

Stuart, House of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2012]

Language Note:

English

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).

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783050062556

305006255X

OCLC:

872654764