Main entry:

Hart, Vaughan, 1960-

Title & Author:

Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts / Vaughan Hart.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-255) and index.
Introduction : Stuart Magic and the Fairy Queen -- I. Stuart Court Art and the Magic of Kingship -- II. Masques, Sermons, and the Prophetic 'Albion and Jerusalem' -- III. Heraldry and the Architectural Orders as Joint Emblems of the 'House of British Chivalry' -- IV. Gardens and the Illusion of Natural Magic -- V. Architecture and the Geometry of Solomon's Temple -- VI. Musical Harmony and Pythagorean Palaces -- VII. Processions and Stuart London as the Neoplatonic 'City of the Sun' -- Epilogue: Apocalyptic Court Art and Albion's Second Ruin -- Appendix: The Problem of Authorship of Stone-Heng Restored (1655).
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Vaughan Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art in the Stuart court. This period, spanning from the inauguration of James I to the execution of Charles I, saw art, in its role as an element of royal propaganda, used to represent the power of the monarch and his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists therefore sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' Divine Right, and later of their policy of Absolutism. Court masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions represented the self-image of the Stuart monarch. Magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its notion of the cosmos played its part in the causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which ensued.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415090318
9780415090315

Subject:

Stuart (House of) Art patronage.
Stuart, House of Art patronage.
Stuart (famille) Mécénat.
Art, Stuart.
Art patronage Great Britain History 17th century.
Allegories.
Magic Influence.
Neoplatonism.
Art history
Magic history
Art Stuart.
Mécénat Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle.
Allégories.
Néo-platonisme.
allegory (artistic device)
Neo-Platonism.
Art patronage
Kunst.
Macht.
Magie.
Art Grande-Bretagne 17e siècle.
Magie Dans l'art.
Great Britain
Arts Patronage

Form/genre:

Allegories.
History
Allégories.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192491
Call No.: ID N6766.H37; ID:97-B3581
Status: Available