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The Elizabethan Image : An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603, Paperback / softback Book

The Elizabethan Image : An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558-1603 Paperback / softback

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The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written 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.

Strong surveysthe entirety of Elizabeth I’s reign from the Procession Picture to the Rainbow Portrait (1600–1602).

A range of social aspects of Elizabethan portraiture are explored, such as patronage, symbolic self-fashioning, Elizabethan pageantry and melancholic humor.

Strong reveals the Elizabethan approach to portraiture, while demonstrating a new way to look at these paintings.

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 most fascinating periods of British art.

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