Elizabethan treasures: miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the drama of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art fo...

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Hauptverfasser: MacLeod, Catharine (VerfasserIn), MacGibbon, Rab (VerfasserIn), Button, Victoria (VerfasserIn), Coombs, Katherine (VerfasserIn), Derbyshire, Alan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hilliard, Nicholas 1547-1619 (IllustratorIn), Oliver, Isaac 1556-1617 (IllustratorIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London National Portrait Gallery [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for its literary culture - the drama of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English artists of this period were renowned : portrait miniature painting, or as it was known at the time, limning. G owing from roots in manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547? - 1619) and Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 - 1617). In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I /VI . This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Beschreibung:Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at National Portrait Gallery, London, February 21-May 19, 2019
Beschreibung:231 Seiten 28 cm
ISBN:9781855147027
1855147025

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