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Tudor liveliness : vivid art in post-Reformation England

Faraday, Christina J., author

Overview

Here is a groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art. In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed 'lively.' This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture - from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could 'liveliness' have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could 'liveliness' have been a good thing? In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness - one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences.

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,Yale University Press
• Subject: Art, Tudor. / Art, English 16th century. / Art, English 17th century. / Realism in art. / Art and Design.
• ISBN: 9781913107376

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6765 .F37 2023	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE