Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales - Rilegato

Cooper, Tarnya

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ISBN 10: 0300162790 ISBN 13: 9780300162790

Casa editrice: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, 2012

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tarnya Cooper is chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Product Description:

Book by Cooper Tarnya

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300162790
• ISBN 13: 9780300162790
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 251