Title: Visions of the courtly body
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)
Subjects: Art collections, History, Court and courtiers, Portraits, Kings and rulers, English Masques, History and criticism, Buckingham, george villiers, duke of, 1592-1628, Stuart, house of, Masques, Great britain, court and courtiers, Great britain, kings and rulers, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714
Places: Great Britain
People: George Villiers Buckingham Duke of (1592-1628), House of Stuart
Time periods: James I, 1603-1625, Charles I, 1625-1649, 17th century