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 impo...

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Main Author: Goldring, Elizabeth 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2014
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Summary:"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 from private collections, never before reproduced in color. "..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Physical Description:XIX, 380 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780300192247

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