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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the world of Elizabethan art : painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth I

Title: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the world of Elizabethan art : painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth I / Elizabeth Goldring.
Author: Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970-
Publication: New Haven : Publsihed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description

xix, 380 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

"This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester's picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume's pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images from private collections, never before reproduced in color. "--

Alternative Title

Elizabethan art
Painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index.

Contents

Introduction: "a noble Mecenas" -- The Dudleys and their Milieu, 1509-1559 -- The 1560s : Creation of an Earl -- The 1570s : Princely Pleasures -- The 1580s : Leicester and the Netherlands -- Kenilworth Castle -- Leicester House and Wanstead Manor -- Epilogue : Dispersal and Descent.

Call Number

JQF 14-1213

ISBN

9780300192247 (hardback)
030019224X (hardback)

LCCN

2013042760

OCLC

892962613

Author

Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970- author.

Title

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the world of Elizabethan art : painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth I / Elizabeth Goldring.

Publisher

New Haven : Publsihed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index.

Research Call Number

JQF 14-1213

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