Visions of the courtly body
Subtitle: the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court
By: Christiane Hille
Publisher: Akademie Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9783050059082
Subjects: Art collections; History; Court and courtiers; Portraits; Kings and rulers; English Masques; History and criticism
Description: "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)
Notes: "This book was submitted as a PhD thesis to Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2008." (p. IX)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-301).