Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts

by Hart,Vaughan

• ISBN13: 9780415090315
• ISBN10: 0415090318
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Spanning from the innauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. InArt and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts, Vaughan Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature.'Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldy, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.

Author Biography

Vaughan Hart is currently a lecturer in the School of Architecture and Building Engineering at Bath University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
That Triplicity Which in Great Veneration Was Ascribed to Ancient Hermes	p. 12
By the Might, and Magic of His Arm	p. 30
A Peece Rather of Good Heraldry, Than of Architecture	p. 60
A Piece Not of Nature, but of Arte	p. 84
Dee in His Mathematicall Preface...the West End of S. Pauls	p. 105
The Lofty Tunes of the Diapenthes, Diatessarons, and Diapasons of Our Royall Harpe	p. 136
The Body of the King...that Glorious Sun	p. 155
Notes	p. 206
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 256
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