The feminine dynamic in English art, 1485-1603 : women as consumers, patrons and painters
"A significant contribution to the understanding of sixteenth-century English art in an historical context, this study by Susan James represents an intensive rethinking and restructuring of the Tudor art world based on a broad, detailed survey of women's diverse creative roles within that world." "Drawn principally from primary sources, this book presents important new research which examines the contributions of Tudor women in the formation, distribution and popularization of the visual arts, particularly portraiture and the portrait miniature. James highlights the involvement of women as patrons, consumers and creators of art in sixteenth-century England and their use of the painted image as a statement of cultural worth. She explores and analyzes the amount of time, money, effort and ingenuity which women across all social classes invested in the development of art, in the uses they found for it, and the surprising and unexpected ways in which they exploited it."--BOOK JACKET
History
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780754663812, 0754663817
236082366
Patronage and consumption
Painting as presentation
Painting as propaganda
Painting as power
Painting as production and the family business
The art of Susanna Horenboult
The queen's painter : Lievine Teerlinc