For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century, access began to widen to the urban middle class, including merchants, lawyers, physicians, clergy, writers, and musicians. As portraiture proliferated in English cities and towns, the middle class gained social visibility?not just for themselves as individuals, but for their entire class or industry. In Citizen Portrait, Tarnya Cooper examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England, focusing on the motivations of those who chose to be painted and the impact of the resulting images. Highlighting the opposing, yet common, themes of piety and self-promotion, Cooper has revealed a fresh area of interest for scholars of early modern British art.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300162790
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117436874
Product Key Features
Book Title
Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
Author
Tarnya Cooper
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
291mm
Item Width
253mm
Item Weight
1530g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Tarnya Cooper
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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