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  1. Picturing courtiers and nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck
    self representation by early modern elites
    Author: Peacock, John
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "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... more

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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "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"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367439088
    Series: Routledge research in art history
    Subjects: Courts and courtiers in art; Nobility in art; Portrait painting, European
    Other subjects: Castiglione, Baldassarre conte (1478-1529): Libro del cortegiano; Castiglione, Baldassarre conte (1478-1529); Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641)
    Scope: xvi, 208 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Picturing courtiers and nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck
    self representation by early modern elites
    Author: Peacock, John
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "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... more

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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    ::8:2021:1350:
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 B 194665
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2021 C 710
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    Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    71.4° 217
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    "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"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367439088
    Series: Routledge research in art history
    Subjects: Courts and courtiers in art; Nobility in art; Portrait painting, European
    Other subjects: Castiglione, Baldassarre conte (1478-1529): Libro del cortegiano; Castiglione, Baldassarre conte (1478-1529); Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641)
    Scope: xvi, 208 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index