Download or read book The Court Beauties written by James Robinson Planché and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Court Beauties of Old Whitehall Historiettes of the Restoration written by W. R. H. Trowbridge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the Restoration" by W. R. H. Trowbridge is a book about Great Britain's history and restoration (1660-1688). The epoch of restauration is one of the most interesting and intriguing topic in English history. It is a subject on which an immense number of books has been written. Of the eight beautiful women whose extraordinary careers are described in the following pages, the names of all are probably more or less familiar to the reader, while some—such as "Madame" and the Duchess of Portsmouth— have provided several historians with themes that have elevated them to the proud height of classical authority. The author's goal is to make an inquiry into the private lives of the great and into the spirit of the society of the past.
Download or read book Court Beauties of Old Whitehall written by William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love Stories of Court Beauties written by Franzisca baroness von Hedemann and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beauty Sex and Power written by Brett Dolman and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II's reign was a period of revolutionary experimentation: in science, art and sexual etiquette. For the first time in British history, Royal mistresses - such as Nell Gwyn - played an active, public role in court life. Women sensed new possibilities and freedoms, appearing on stage, managing their own financial, matrimonial - and extra-marital - affairs. Encouraged by a licentious King, 'being beautiful' could get you what you wanted. But if beauty was admired and revered, praised by poets and idealised by artists, it was also distrusted and feared, pursued and possessed. Beautiful women were chased and abused, pilloried as whores. This equivocal nature of beauty explains the lives of some of the most charismatic and controversial men and women in British history - those Restoration mistresses and degenerate libertines who lived, loved and died amidst the bespangled luxury of the late Stuart Court. This beautiful book, published to accompany an exhibition at Hampton Court Palace, traces the rise and fall of the 'beautiful revolution' from the Restoration of Charles II to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. It is also a book about beauty itself: its ambiguity, its authority and its transience. This is a timeless tale about our continuing obsession with beauty, celebrity, power and love. AUTHOR: Brett Dolman is Curator of Collections at Hampton Court Palace and joint author of several publications including The Royal Palaces of London. SELLING POINTS: *Showcases familiar and little-known paintings from The Royal Collection and other public and private houses across the country *Features the 'Windsor Beauties' and the 'Hampton Court Beauties' - portraits of ladies at court by the leading royal artists, Peter Lely and Godfrey Kneller - each with their own stories to tell *Reveals Charles II's own exotic artistic tastes, and his own 'collection' of beautiful women 97 colour illustrations
Download or read book Early Modern Court Culture written by Erin Griffey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing insights into aspects of both community and continuity at courts as well as individual identity, change and difference. Culture is presented as not merely a vehicle for court propaganda in promoting the monarch and the dynasty, but as a site for a complex range of meanings that conferred status and virtue on the patron, maker, court and the wider community of elites. The essays show that the court provided an arena for virtue and virtuosity, intellectual and social play, demonstration of moral authority and performance of social, gendered, confessional and dynastic identity. Early Modern Court Culture moves from political structures and political players to architectural forms and spatial geographies; ceremonial and ritual observances; visual and material culture; entertainment and knowledge. With 35 contributions on subjects including gardens, dress, scent, dance and tapestries, this volume is a necessary resource for all students and scholars interested in the court in early modern Europe.
Download or read book Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of the Stuarts including the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell written by John Heneage Jesse and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Guide to the R Palace of Hampton Court with a New Catalogue of the Pictures written by Law and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hampton Court written by Ernest Philip Alphonse Law and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Gerald Egan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One view of the author in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain held that poetic genius could reside in the lady or gentleman of fashion. Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century examines this cultural trope of genius-as-fashionista by applying an innovative mix of approaches—book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress—to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, Fashioning Authorship looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment.
Download or read book A Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court written by Ernest Law and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Court and Reign of Francis the First written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Satirical Gaze written by Cindy McCreery and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed.
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