Citizen portrait: portrait painting and the urban elite of tudor and jacobean england and wales
Auteur :
Cooper, Tarnya
Éditeur :
Yale University Press
ISBN :
9780300162790
Date de publication :
28 sept. 2012
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
1542 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. This book examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England.