Albion's classicism
Subtitle: the visual arts in Britain, 1550-1660
By: edited by Lucy Gent.
Contributors: Gent, Lucy.; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.; Yale Center for British Art.
Series: Studies in British art ;; 2
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Art, Renaissance -- England.; Art, Tudor.; Art, Stuart.; Classicism in art -- Great Britain.
Description: The essays in this volume demonstrate how unpredictable attitudes to classical art turn out to be in Britain during this period. They show how, from town halls to catafalques, British artists, patrons, and builders made informed choices from the classical vocabulary, while working within systems and circumstances quite distinct from those of classicism.

They also disclose visual sensibilities, in architecture as in painting, that were extinguished and forgotten as classicism came to be regarded as the desirable norm. The visual world of Albion (an ancient name for the islands of Great Britain, now used poetically of Britain) that has been lost is here evoked and the contribution of Inigo Jones in particular is clarified.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference held at the Warburg Institute, University of London, Nov. 19-20, 1993.