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Court, country, city : British art and architecture, 1660-1735 /

"The late 17th and early 18th centuries saw profound changes in Britain and in its visual arts. This volume provides fresh perspectives on the art of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods, focusing on the concepts, spaces, and audiences of court, country, and city as reflected in an array...

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Other Authors: Hallett, Mark, 1965- (Editor), Llewellyn, Nigel, 1951- (Editor), Myrone, Martin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Published by the Yale Center for British Art, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [2016]
Subjects:
Art, British > 17th century.
Art, British > 18th century.
Architecture > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Architecture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Art and society > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Art and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Architecture and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
ISBN:9780300214802
0300214804
Table of Contents:
  • Through Vertue's Eyes: Looking Again at British Art and Architecture, 1660-1735
  • Palace of Westminster and the London Market for Pictures / Mark Hallett
  • Making Empire Visible at the Second Royal Exchange, London / Richard Stephens
  • Honour, Ornament, and Frugality: The Reconstruction of London's Livery Halls after the Great Fire / Christine Stevenson
  • Fashioning and Furnishing for Performance: The Rise and Fall of the State Bedchamber in the English Royal Palace / Anya Matthews
  • Castle Howard and the Interpretation of English Baroque Architecture / Sebastian Edwards
  • Antonio Verrio and the Triumph of Painting at the Restoration Court / Anthony Geraghty
  • Public Image of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, 1702-1708 / Richard Johns
  • Rupture Through Realism: Sarah Churchill and Louis Laguerre's Murals at Marlborough House / Matthew Hargraves
  • "All the World is ambitious of seeing the Picture of so Great a Queen": Kneller's State Portraits of Queen Anne and the Pictorial Currency of Friendship / Lydia Hamlett
  • Public Sculpture of Queen Anne: The Minehead Commission (1715) / Tabitha Barber
  • English Revolution and the Revolution of History Painting: The Bowles Brothers' "Life of Charles I" / Claudine van Hensbergen
  • Lely, Drawing, and the Training of Artists / David H. Solkin
  • "This Ingenious young Gent and excellent artist": William Lodge (1649-1689) and the York Virtuosi / Diana Dethloff
  • "Deceives in an acceptable, amusing and praiseworthy fashion": Still Life, Illusion, and Deception / Helen Pierce
  • "A Session of Painters": Legacy, Succession, and the Prospects for British Portraiture after Kneller / Tim Batchelor
  • View from the Gentleman's Seat / Jacqueline Riding
  • Thirty different Drafts of Guinea: A Printed Prospectus of Trade and Territory in West Africa / John Bonehill
  • Dialogues in Paint and Print: Mezzotint Portraiture and Intermedial Exchange / Emily Mann
  • Royal Subject: William Sanderson's Guide to Painting on the Eve of the Restoration / Peter Moore
  • Engraving's Third Dimension / Caroline Good
  • Taxonomy for the Invisible: Categories for English Funeral Monuments / Martin Myrone.

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