Portraits, painters, and publics in provincial England, 1540-1640
Tittler, RobertAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre. The book places portrait patronage and production in this era in the broad social and cultural context of post-Reformation England, and it distinguishes between native English provincial portraiture, which was often highly vernacular, and foreign-influenced portraiture of the court and metropolis that tended towards the formal and 'polite'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre. The book places portrait patronage and production in this era in the broad social and cultural context of post-Reformation England, and it distinguishes between native English provincial portraiture, which was often highly vernacular, and foreign-influenced portraiture of the court and metropolis that tended towards the formal and 'polite'.
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Portrait painting, English
Portrait painting, English
Art patronage
Art patronage
Visual Arts
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Painting