Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites...

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John Peacock

Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck

Self Representation by Early Modern Elites

John Peacock

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Art styles not defined by date; Painting & paintings; Regional studies; Sociology

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.

Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility –how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.

By: John Peacock
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780367534936
ISBN 10: 0367534932
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Peacock was Reader in English at the University of Southampton UK, where he is now a Visiting Fellow.