Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites

by John Peacock

This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.

Beginning with Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367439085
• ISBN13: 9780367439088
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"