Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660 Volume 2 Hardcover - 1996
by Lucy Gent (Editor)
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The essays in this volume demonstrate how unpredictable attitudes to classical art turn out to be in Britain during this period. They show how, from town halls to catafalques, British artists, patrons, and builders made informed choices from the classical vocabulary, while working within systems and circumstances quite distinct from those of classicism. They also disclose visual sensibilities, in architecture as in painting, that were extinguished and forgotten as classicism came to be regarded as the desirable norm. The visual world of Albion (an ancient name for the islands of Great Britain, now used poetically of Britain) that has been lost is here evoked and the contribution of Inigo Jones in particular is clarified.
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- Title Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660 Volume 2
- Author Lucy Gent (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 478
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Paul Mellon Centre, New Haven
- Date January 24, 1996
- ISBN 9780300063813 / 0300063814
- Weight 3.66 lbs (1.66 kg)
- Dimensions 10.31 x 7.32 x 1.51 in (26.19 x 18.59 x 3.84 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Art, Renaissance - England, Art, Tudor
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95061276
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.420
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