| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction 'The Invisible Lady styled the Magical Sister of the Rosicross' STUART MAGIC AND THE FAIRY QUEEN; 'That triplicity which in great veneration was ascribed to ancient Hermes' STUART COURT ART AND THE MAGIC OF KINGSHIP; 'By the might, And magic of his arm' MASQUES, SERMONS, AND THE PROPHETIC 'ALBION AND JERUSALEM'; 'A peece rather of good Heraldry, than of Architecture' HERALDRY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS AS JOINT EMBLEMS OF THE 'HOUSE OF BRITISH CHIVALRY' |
| Summary |
Examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art in the context of the first Stuart Court. Here artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart King's Divine Right, and later of their policy of Absolutism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stuart, House of -- Art patronage.
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Stuart, House of. |
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Art patronage. |
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Stuart, House of. |
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Stuart (famille) -- Mécénat. |
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Art, Stuart.
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Art, Stuart. |
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Allegories.
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Allegories. |
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Magic -- Influence.
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Magic -- Influence. |
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Magic. |
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Neoplatonism.
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Neoplatonism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hart, Vaughan, 1960- Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 (DLC) 94002272 |
| ISBN |
0203200780 (electronic book) |
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9780203200780 (electronic book) |
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9780415090315 |
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0415090318 |
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9781134876792 (electronic book) |
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1134876793 (electronic book) |
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1280325437 |
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9781280325434 |
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0415090318 (Cloth) |
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