The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558?1603 (okładka  miękka, wyd. 08.2021)

The new paperback edition of Roy Strong`s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy Strong`s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesizes scholarship and research on this subject into a concise introduction to the Elizabethan aesthetic. Strong surveysthe entirety of Elizabeth I`s reign from the Procession Picture to the Rainbow Portrait (1600-1602). A range of social aspects of Elizabethan portraiture are explored, such as patronage, symbolic self-fashioning, Elizabethan pageantry and melancholic humor. Strong reveals the Elizabethan approach to portraiture, while demonstrating a new way to look at these paintings. From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring `middle class`, Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the most fascinating periods of British art.