The English Renaissance Miniature - Softcover

Strong, Roy

 
9780500273364: The English Renaissance Miniature

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This is the first comprehensive survey of England's unique contribution to the art of the Renaissance: the portrait miniature. Arising out of the technical traditions of medieval manuscript illumination and inspired by the art of the Valois court, the portrait miniature, or limning (from' illumination') as it was then called, was to remain for a century the ideal vehicle for the expression of the cult of the Crown, an art form peculiarly suited to the ruling classes of post-Reformation England."--Jacket.

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ISBN 10:  0500233705 ISBN 13:  9780500233702
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1983
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