Title: Renaissance bodies : the human figure in English culture c. 1540-1660 /
Authors: Gent, Lucy.; Llewellyn, Nigel, 1951-
Publisher: Reaktion,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Anatomy, Artistic; Art; Body Image; Human beings in art.; Art, High Renaissance England.; Art Themes, motives; Portraits, English.; Nobility England Portraits.; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) England.; Human figure in art.; Arts, Renaissance England.; Arts, English.; Arts and society England.; England; England.
Abstract: Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture ? from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism ? and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period. With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn.
Contents: Icons of divinity : portraits of Elizabeth I / Andrew Belsey and Catherine Belsey -- Lady Elizabeth Pope / Ellen Chirelstein -- In memory : Lady Dacre and pairing by Hans Eworth / Elizabeth Honig -- "Magnetic figures" : polemical prints of the English revolution / Tamsyn Williams -- The fate of Marsyas / Jonathan Sawday -- The rhetoric of status / Anna Bryson -- Inigo Jones as a figurative artist / John Peacock -- 'Tis pity she's a whore / Susan J. Wiseman -- Self-fashioning and the classical moment in mid-sixteenth-century English architecture / Maurice Howard -- The royal body / Nigel Llewellyn.