Elizabethan Image
Elizabethan Image The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraitureWritten for the general reader, Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture…
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Elizabethan Image
The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraitureWritten for the general reader, Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise introduction to the Elizabethan aesthetic. A range of social aspects of Elizabethan portraiture are explored, such as patronage, symbolic self-fashioning, Elizabethan pageantry and melancholic humor. Strong surveysthe entirety of Elizabeth I's reign from the Procession Picture to the Rainbow Portrait (1600-1602).
From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring 'middle class', Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the Strong reveals the Elizabethan approach to portraiture, while demonstrating a new way to look at these paintings.