Portraits, Painters, and Publics in Provincial England, 1540-1640

Zusatztext Tittler provides in this important monograph a valuable window into the production of painted portraits by a category of artist until now little-studied within the history of English art. Informationen zum Autor Robert Tittler has researched, taught, and published for over forty years, producing ten books and some fifty scholarly articles and essays on the urban, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Tudor and early Stuart eras. He prefers to work at the edges of his subjects rather in their centres, hoping to knit those subjects together with the edges of adjacent issues. His studies of town halls and political authority (Architecture and Power,1991), of the impact of the Reformation on urban political life (The Reformation and the Towns, 1998), the experiences of individual urban residents in relation to the whole (Townspeople and Nation, 2001), or of portraiture and civic identity (The Face of the City, 2007), all work towards those ends, as doesthis present book. Klappentext The first comprehensive study of post-Reformation provincial English Portraiture which investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive study of post-Reformation provincial English Portraiture which investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre. 1. Introduction ; 2. English Portraiture in Context ; 3. Locating the Public ; 4. Provincial Painters ; 5. Painters' Resources: Material and Cultural ; 6. Heraldry and Portraiture ; 7. The Provincial Vocabulary: 'Props' and their Meaning ; 8. Varieties of Regional Experience ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

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The first comprehensive study of post-Reformation provincial English Portraiture which investigates the growing affinity for secular portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for that genre.

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• Authors: Robert Tittler, Robert (Distinguished Professor of Histor Tittler, Robert (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Tittler, Tittler Robert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199685967
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968596-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; England, European History, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), ART / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 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 and self-portraiture in art