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ART HISTORY

PUBLISHER
National Portrait Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7 x 10.5 in. / 232 pgs / 163 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 54   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781855147027 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CAD $69.95

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Out of stock

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

London
National Portrait Gallery, 02/21/19–05/19/19

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

Text by Catharine MacLeod.

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with special reference to two of its most accomplished practitioners, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, whose astounding skill brought them international fame and admiration.

In addition to exhibiting the exquisite technique of the artists, portrait miniatures express in a unique way many of the most distinctive and fascinating aspects of court life in this period: ostentatious secrecy, games of courtly love, arcane symbolism, a love of intricacy and decoration. Bedecked in elaborate lace, encrusted in jewellery and sprinkled with flowers, court ladies smile enigmatically at the viewer; their male counterparts rest on grassy banks or lean against trees, sighing over thwarted love, or more modestly express their hopes in Latin epigrams inscribed around their heads.

Often set in richly enamelled and jewelled gold lockets, or beautifully turned ivory or ebony boxes, such miniatures could be concealed or revealed, exchanged or kept, as part of elaborate processes of friendship, love, patronage and diplomacy at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I. This richly illustrated book explores what the portrait miniature reveals about identity, society and visual culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver.'

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

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