Albion's classicism
the visual arts in Britain, 1550-1660
by Lucy Gent
The essays in this volume demonstrate how unpredictable attitudes to classical art turn out to be in Britain during this period. They show how, from town halls to catafalques, British artists, patrons, and builders made informed choices from the classical vocabulary, while working within systems and circumstances quite distinct from those of classicism.
They also disclose visual sensibilities, in architecture as in painting, that were extinguished and forgotten as classicism came to be regarded as the desirable norm. The visual world of Albion (an ancient name for the islands of Great Britain, now used poetically of Britain) that has been lost is here evoked and the contribution of Inigo Jones in particular is clarified.
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Stuart Art, Renaissance Art, Classicism in art, Tudor Art, Art, british, Neoclassicism (Art), British ArtPlaces
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Albion's classicism: the visual arts in Britain, 1550-1660
1995, Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press
in English
0300063814 9780300063813
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference held at the Warburg Institute, University of London, Nov. 19-20, 1993.
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