Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art - Painting and Patronage At the Court of Elizabeth I

"This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester's picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume's pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images fromprivate collections, never before reproduced in color. "--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Goldring
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.10.2014
• EAN: 9780300192247
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19224-7
• Pagine: 380
• Serie: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro