Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court /

"As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham's patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new g...

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