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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art - Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art - Painting and Patronage at the Court of Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in British Art
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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.
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