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Portraits, Painters, and Publics in Provincial England, 1540-1640 (Hardcover, New)
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Portraits, Painters, and Publics in Provincial England, 1540-1640 (Hardcover, New)
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Robert Tittler investigates the growing affinity for secular
portraiture in Tudor and early Stuart England, a cultural and
social phenomenon which can be said to have produced a 'public' for
that genre. He breaks new ground in placing portrait patronage and
production in this era in the broad social and cultural context of
post-Reformation England, and in distinguishing between native
English provincial portraiture, which was often highly vernacular,
and foreign-influenced portraiture of the court and metropolis,
which tended towards the formal and 'polite'. Tittler describes the
burgeoning public for portraiture of this era as more than the
familiar court-and-London based presence, but rather as a
phenomenon which was surprisingly widespread both socially and
geographically throughout the realm. He suggests that provincial
portraiture differed from the 'mainstream', cosmopolitan
portraiture of the day in its workmanship, materials, inspirations,
and even vocabulary, showing how its native English roots continued
to guide its production. Innovative chapters consider the aims and
vocabulary of English provincial portraiture, the relationship of
portraiture and heraldry, the painter's occupation in provincial
(as opposed to metropolitan) England, and the contrasting
availability of materials and training in both provincial and
metropolitan areas. The work as a whole contributes to both art
history and social history; it speaks to admirers and collectors of
painting as well as to curators and academics.
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