| Abstract |
"As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham's patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship." (cover - p. 4) |
| General note | "This book was submitted as a PhD thesis to Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2008." (p. IX) |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-301). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012510122 |
| ISBN | 9783050059082 |
| ISBN | 3050059087 |
