Van Dyck's Genoese Nobles : Two Portraits in Context.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, John.

Series:

Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Series

Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Series ; v.85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641.

Nobility in art.

Portrait painting, Flemish.

Local Subjects:

Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

A study of two major aristocratic portraits which Van Dyck painted during his residence in Genoa in the 1620s, using the meanings specific to each image and the contrasts between them to expound the distinctive and shifting ideas about nobility and its prerogatives entertained by the Genoese patriciate.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Nobility in Genoa

1 Maritime Enterprise and Metropolitan Government

2 Nobility and Commerce: Practice and Theory

3 Finance and Feudal Lordship

4 Picturing Genoese Nobility

Chapter 3 Expounding Elena Grimaldi

1 A Regal Nobility

2 Palace and Villa: Civility and Nature

3 The Reciprocal Gaze: Theatre and Scene

4 The Palatial Scrutiny

5 The Look of the Villa

6 Liberty and Loftiness

7 The Nature of Nobility

Chapter 4 The Prospect of Anton Giulio Brignole Sale

1 The House of Brignole: Its Rise and Its Future

2 Towards a Palazzo Brignole Sale?

3 The Feudal Landscape

4 Spanish Dominance: between Culture and Politics

5 Formality and Informality

6 Nobility, Lineage and savoir vivre

7 Picturing Lineage: Past, Present, Future

8 The Noble Man of Letters

9 A Newer Kind of Nobility

Chapter 5 New Identities: the Patrician between Courtier and Prince

1 Nobility and the Courtier

2 Castiglione 'Genovese'?

3 The Evolution of sprezzatura

4 Mutations of sprezzatura

5 Courtiers, Princely Rulers and the Republic of Genoa

6 Courtiers and Nobles

7 Sprezzatura for Academicians

8 The sprezzatura of the Cavalier

9 Chivalry, Culture and Politics

10 The Idea of a Princely Oligarch

Chapter 6 Afterword: Noble Potraiture as 'History'

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Peacock, John Van Dyck's Genoese Nobles

ISBN:

9789004729711

OCLC:

1593362775