Citizen Portrait

Citizen Portrait
Author: Tarnya Cooper
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300162790

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century, access began to widen to the urban middle class, including merchants, lawyers, physicians, clergy, writers, and musicians. As portraiture proliferated in English cities and towns, the middle class gained social visibility--not just for themselves as individuals, but for their entire class or industry. In Citizen Portrait, Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England, focusing on the motivations of those who chose to be painted and the impact of the resulting images. Highlighting the opposing, yet common, themes of piety and self-promotion, Cooper has revealed a fresh area of interest for scholars of early modern British art. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 998
Release: 1903
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1911
Genre: Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN:

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 698
Release: 1914
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN:

The Art of Domestic Life

The Art of Domestic Life
Author: Kate Retford
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300110012

"Conversely, Retford shows, there remained the requirement to promote traditional values of patriarchy and hierarchy, notably in the context of the country-house collection. Here, eighteenth-century portraits took their place in displays that emphasised ancestry and inherited virtue. However, in the later part of the century, the morals of the aristocracy were increasingly subject to political satire and caricature. Retford argues that some members of the nobility fought back with portraits that emphasised their domestic merits." ""The Art of Domestic Life" contributes a wealth of visual evidence to ongoing debates about the history of the family. It offers important insights into both innovations and traditions in the genre of family portraiture in this period, based on in-depth research into paintings, the lives of the sitters depicted and the domestic spaces in which those images were hung."--BOOK JACKET.