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Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver (Hardcover)
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Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver (Hardcover)
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In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one
art form in which English artists excelled above all their
continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This
fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two
of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac
Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and
admiration. Four centuries ago, England was famous primarily for
its literary culture - the dram a of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and
the works of the great lyrical and metaphysical poets. When it came
to the production of visual art, the country was seen as something
of a backwater. However, there was one art form for which English
artists of this period were renowned: portrait miniature painting,
or as it was known at the time, limning. Growing from roots in
manuscript illumination, it was brought to astonishing heights of
skill by two artists in particular: Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
and Isaac Oliver (c .1565-1617). In addition to exhibiting the
exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in
a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects
of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of
courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration.
Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled
with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their
male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees,
sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in
Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads. Often set in richly
enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or
ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed,
exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship,
love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and
James I /VI. This richly illustrated book, like the exhibition it
accompanies, explores what the portrait miniature reveals about
identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean
England.
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