A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture—from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could “liveliness”Continue reading “New Book Publication: Tudor Liveliness – Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England by Christina J Faraday”
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Casting the Real in Petrach’s Time (New York, 4-5 May 17)
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, May 4 – 05, 2017 <https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/news-and-events/events/2017/may4-5castingthereal/> Casting the Real: Reproduction, Translation and Interpretation in Petrach’s Time The History of Art department of the University of York is pleased to sponsor ‘Casting the Real: Reproduction, Translation, and Interpretation in Petrarch’s Time’, an international workshop that explores the ways fourteenth-century poets, intellectuals,Continue reading “Casting the Real in Petrach’s Time (New York, 4-5 May 17)”
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