9781855147027-1855147025-Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

ISBN-13: 9781855147027
ISBN-10: 1855147025
Author: Catharine MacLeod
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Format: Hardcover 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781855147027
ISBN-10: 1855147025
Author: Catharine MacLeod
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Format: Hardcover 232 pages

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Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver (ISBN-13: 9781855147027 and ISBN-10: 1855147025), written by authors Catharine MacLeod, was published by National Portrait Gallery in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Themes (Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Themes books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.27.

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In the late 16th and early 17th 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.

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. This richly illustrated book explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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