Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites by John Peacock
Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites
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John Peacock
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Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites

Routledge Research in Art History

John Peacock

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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 form...

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