Van Dyck & Britain

by Hearn, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781854377951
• ISBN10: 1854377957
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

This richly illustrated catalog corresponds with an exhibition at Tate Britain of work by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck that portrays the royal families and members of the court. Both the exhibition and catalog focus specifically on the two periods van Dyck spent in London: his brief visit in 1620 to the court of King James I and his more lengthy visit to serve Charles I, beginning in 1632 and ending almost ten years later with his death in London in 1641. Hearn (curator, 16th- and 17th-century British art, Tate; Nicholas Hilliard) and other distinguished scholars and art historians including Christopher Brown, Diana Dethloff, Emilie Gordenker, Kevin M. Sharpe, Susan Sloman, and Aileen Ribeiro contribute erudite essays. Complete with 200 full-color illustrations, this catalog is pretty enough to sit on any coffee table; the text, endnotes, bibliography, list of works exhibited, "Loans" and "Lenders and Credits" lists, and index make it fit for serious academic inquiry. A great addition to collections focused on early modern England.Jennifer H. Pollock, Coll. of DAAP Lib., Univ. of Cincinnati Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Author Biography

Karen Hearn is Tate curator of 16th and 17th Century British Art. Contributors to this volume include: Christopher Brown, Diana Dethloff, Emilie Gordenker, Kevin M. Sharpe, Susan Sloman, and Aileen Ribeiro.