Vaughan Hart

Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134876792
• Artikelnr.: 42725679

Autorenporträt

Vaughan Hart

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'The Invisible Lady styled the Magical Sister of the
Rosicross' STUART MAGIC AND THE FAIRY QUEEN, I 'That triplicity which in
great veneration was ascribed to ancient Hermes' STUART COURT ART AND THE
MAGIC OF KINGSHIP II 'By the might, And magic of his arm' MASQUES, SERMONS,
AND THE PROPHETIC 'ALBION AND JERUSALEM' III 'A peece rather of good
Heraldry, than of Architecture', HERALDRY AND THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS AS
JOINT EMBLEMS OF THE 'HOUSE OF BRITISH CHIVALRY' IV 'A piece not of Nature,
but of Arte' GARDENS AND THE ILLUSION OF NATURAL MAGIC V 'Dee in his
Mathematicall Preface...the West end of S.Pauls' ARCHITECTURE AND THE
GEOMETRY OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE VI 'The lofty tunes of the Diapenthes,
Diatessarons, and Diapasons of our Royall Harpe' MUSICAL HARMONY AND
PYTHAGOREAN PALACES VII 'The body of the King...that glorious Sun'
PROCESSIONS AND STUART LONDON AS THE NEOPLATONIC 'CITY OF THE SUN'
Epilogue- 'The heav'n of earth shall have no oddes', APOCALYPTIC COURT ART
AND ALBION'S SECOND RUIN