Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts write by Vaughan Hart. This book was released on 2002-03-11. Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning from the inauguration 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. 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, heraldry, 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.
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts write by Vaughan Hart. This book was released on 2002-03-11. Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning from the inauguration 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. 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, heraldry, 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.
Exorcising Our Demons
Exorcising Our Demons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exorcising Our Demons write by Charles Zika. This book was released on 2003. Exorcising Our Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of fascinating essays explores the relationship between humanism and magic, the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power, and the links between witchcraft, sexuality and savagery in the visual culture of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The Stuart Courts
The Stuart Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stuart Courts write by Eveline Cruickshanks. This book was released on 2012-05-30. The Stuart Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic kings of mainland Europe. They were centres of great culture, patronage, ceremony and politics. The real importance of the courts, though down-played for many years, is now beginning to be fully recognised and this first major study of the Stuart courts in England, Scotland and Ireland examines them in their full cultural and historical context. Scholars of international reputation and up and coming, younger scholars have been brought together to give us an insight into many aspects of the Stuart courts. This book includes essays on culture and patronage of the arts and social history. What was it really like at the court? What rules applied? How did the courtiers behave? Finally, the crucial interplay between court life and political life, and politics, is examined in detail. This book is a major contribution to a flourishing area of scholarship and will be required reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century history, court studies or the arts in the early modern period.
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale write by Martina Zamparo. This book was released on 2022-10-05. Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
