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Author Hille, Christiane, author.

Title 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.

Publication Info. Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2012]
2012

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Note "This book was submitted as a PhD thesis to Humboldt-Universitat Berlin in 2008." (page IX).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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).
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628 -- Art collections.
Stuart, House of.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hille, Christiane. Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court. Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2012] ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm. 9783050059082 (OCoLC)ocn817948580 (DLC)17564825
ISBN 3050059087
9783050059082
9783050062556 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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