Elizabethan treasures : miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver / Catharine MacLeod with Rab MacGibbon, Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire
2019, First Edition. London : National Portrait Gallery. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #476526
ISBN: 9781855147027
Physical description; 231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. Notes; Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at National Portrait Gallery, London, February 21-May 19. 2019. Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-224) and index. Contents; Director's foreword / Nicholas Cullinan -- A thing apart : Elizabethan and Jacobean portrait miniatures / Catharine MacLeod -- Limning, the perfection of painting : the art of portrait miniatures / Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs, Alan Derbyshire -- The most ingenious master and his well-profiting scholar : brief lives of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver / Rab MacGibbon -- Hilliard's early patronage -- Hilliard in France -- Hilliard at court -- Symbols and secrets -- Royal portraiture : Elizabeth I -- Beyond the court -- Oliver at court -- Love, landscape and melancholy -- Royal portraiture : the Stuarts -- Masques -- Oliver : beyond the portrait miniature -- Select bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- List of lenders -- Index. Subjects; Hilliard, Nicholas 1547?-1619 ; Exhibitions. Oliver, Isaac 1556?-1617 ; Exhibitions. Hilliard, Nicholas. Oliver, Isaac. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) ; Exhibitions. Portrait miniatures, British ; Exhibitions. Portrait painting, British 16th century ; Exhibitions. Portrait painting, British 17th century ; Exhibitions.
Price: €35.00