Citizen Portrait - Portrait Painting Urban Elite of Tudor Jacobean England Wales

Informationen zum Autor Tarnya Cooper is chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Klappentext For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century, access began to widen to the urban middle class, including merchants, lawyers, physicians, clergy, writers, and musicians. As portraiture proliferated in English cities and towns, the middle class gained social visibility--not just for themselves as individuals, but for their entire class or industry. In Citizen Portrait , Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England, focusing on the motivations of those who chose to be painted and the impact of the resulting images. Highlighting the opposing, yet common, themes of piety and self-promotion, Cooper has revealed a fresh area of interest for scholars of early modern British art. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Zusammenfassung For much of early modern history! the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. This book examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England.

Product details

• Authors: Tarnya Cooper, Cooper Tarnya
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2012
• EAN: 9780300162790
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16279-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; England, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, ART / History / General, ART / European, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Painting & paintings, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Portraits in art, Paintings and painting, Portraits and self-portraiture in art