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245 10 a| Painting and patronage at the Elizabethan court :b| Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his world /c| Elizabeth Goldring.;

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264 1 a| New Haven :b| Yale University Press,c| 2014.;

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520 a| "This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester's picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume's pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images from private collections, never before reproduced in color. "--c| Provided by publisher.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

505 0 a| Introduction: "a noble Mecenas" -- The Dudleys and their Milieu, 1509-1559 -- The 1560s: Creation of an Earl -- The 1570s: Princely Pleasures -- The 1580s: Leicester and the Netherlands -- Kenilworth Castle -- Leicester House and Wanstead Manor -- Epilogue: Dispersal and Descent.;

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Painting and patronage at the Elizabethan court : Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and his world / Elizabeth Goldring.

Author/creator	Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970-
Format	Book
Publication	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Description	pages cm
Subjects	Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588--Art patronage. Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588--Art collections. Art patronage--England. --History. --16th century. Painting--Collectors and collecting. --England. --History. --16th century.

Contents	Introduction: "a noble Mecenas" -- The Dudleys and their Milieu, 1509-1559 -- The 1560s: Creation of an Earl -- The 1570s: Princely Pleasures -- The 1580s: Leicester and the Netherlands -- Kenilworth Castle -- Leicester House and Wanstead Manor -- Epilogue: Dispersal and Descent.
Abstract	"This book is the first comprehensive survey of aristocratic art collecting and patronage in Elizabethan England, as seen through the activities of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (ca. 1532-1588). One of the most fascinating and controversial people of his day, Leicester was also the most important patron of painters at the Elizabethan court. He amassed a substantial art collection, including commissioned works by Nicholas Hilliard, Paolo Veronese, and Federico Zuccaro; helped foster the birth of an English vernacular discourse on the visual arts; and was an early exponent, in England, of the Italian Renaissance view of the painter as the practitioner of a liberal art and, thus, fit company for the educated and well-born. Although Leicester's picture collection and personal papers were widely dispersed after his death, this volume's pioneering research reconstructs his lost world and, with it, a turning point in the history of British art. Some of the paintings featured here are little-known images from private collections, never before reproduced in color. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	2013042760
ISBN	9780300192247 (hardback)
ISBN	030019224X (hardback)

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