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Title Renaissance bodies : the human figure in English culture c.1540-1660 / edited by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn
Published London : Reaktion Books, 1990

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Description x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Critical views
Critical views.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Photographic AcknowledgementsNotes on the Editors and ContributorsIntroduction Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn 1. Icons of Divinity: Portraits of Elizabeth I Andrew Belsey and Catherine Belsey 2. Lady Elizabeth Pope: The Heraldic Body Ellen Chirelstein 3. In Memory: Lady Dacre and Pairing by Hans Eworth Elizabeth Honig 4. 'Magnetic Figures': Polemical Prints of the English Revolution Tamsyn Williams 5. The Fate of Marsyas: Dissecting the Renaissance Body Jonathan Sawday 6. The Rhetoric of Status: Gesture, Demeanour and the Image of the Gentleman in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England Anna Bryson 7. Inigo Jones as a Figurative Artist John Peacock 8. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore : Representing the Incestuous Body Susan J. Wiseman 9. Self-Fashioning and the Classical Moment in Mid-Sixteenth-Century English Architecture Maurice Howard 10. The Royal Body: Monuments to the Dead, For the Living Nigel Llewellyn ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex
Analysis English arts Special subjects: Man Body, history
Bibliography Includes bibliography and index
Subject Anatomy, Artistic.
Art and literature.
Arts and society -- England.
Arts, English -- 20th century.
Arts, English.
Arts, Renaissance -- England.
Body image -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Body image.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- England.
Human beings in art.
Human body in literature.
Human figure in art.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056622
United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056623
Author Gent, Lucy.
Llewellyn, Nigel, 1951-
LC no. 90195844
ISBN 0948462086 (paperback)
0948462094
(paperback)
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