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Author Hart, Vaughan, 1960-

Title Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts / Vaughan Hart
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations
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
Analysis Great Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-255) and index
Notes English
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Subject Stuart, House of -- Art patronage
SUBJECT Stuart, House of fast
Stuart (famille) -- Mécénat. ram
Subject Art, Stuart.
Allegories.
Magic -- Influence
Neoplatonism.
allegory (artistic device)
Neo-Platonism.
allegories (literary works)
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Allegories
Art patronage
Art, Stuart
Magic -- Influence
Neoplatonism
Kunst.
Macht.
Magie.
Art -- Grande-Bretagne -- 17e siècle.
Magie -- Dans l'art.
Allégories.
Néo-platonisme.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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