| ISBN13: | 9780367534936 |
| ISBN10: | 0367534932 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 232 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Weight: | 540 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 24 Illustrations, black & white; 12 Illustrations, color; 24 Halftones, black & white; 12 Halftones, color |
| 590 |
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
Arts in general
Painting, graphics
Regional studies
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age
Cultural history
History of Europe
Art history in general
Organizational sociology
Rubens, Van Dyckand and Flemish Painting
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)
Arts in general (charity campaign)
Painting, graphics (charity campaign)
Regional studies (charity campaign)
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign)
Cultural history (charity campaign)
History of Europe (charity campaign)
Art history in general (charity campaign)
Organizational sociology (charity campaign)
Rubens, Van Dyck (charity campaign)
Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck
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This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.
This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.
Beginning with Castiglione?s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility ?how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.
"The text is readable, learned, and thought provoking. The illustrations are adequate, and many are in color. Recommended."
--Choice
