Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites (Routledge Research in Art History)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations used in the Notes
Quotations, Translations and Nomenclature
Introduction
	Notes
Chapter 1 Courtiers, Nobles and Visual Representation
	The Courtier as a Work of Art
	The Sculpture and Architecture of Conduct
	Portraying the Court and the Courtier
	Nobility and Representation
	The Image of Nobility
	Nobility Reproduced or Created?
	The Visual Art of Virtuous Nobility
	Nobility as Self-Picturing
	Notes
Chapter 2 Sprezzatura and its Afterlife: From Castiglione to Faret
	The Art of Sprezzatura
	Sprezzatura Revised: Writer and Narrator in the Galateo
	Guazzo and Sprezzamento
	Tasso: Sprezzatura, Prudence and Feigning
	De Refuge: The Art of Courtly Dissimulation
	Faret: How to Impersonate Oneself Honestly
	Notes
Chapter 3 Nobility and the Art of Painting
	Elyot: Visual Art, Knowledge and Virtue
	Peacham: Picturing Complete Gentility
	Peacham: ‘Scientia’ and Pictorial Art
	Aristotle and Castiglione: The Nobility of Pictorial Art
	Peacham: Pictorial Art and Gentlemanly Moderation
	Junius on Grace and Facility
	Notes
Chapter 4 The Nobly Negligent Painter
	From the ‘Courtesy’ Literature to Art Theory
	The Virtue and Nobility of Painting
	Bellori on the Wisdom and Nobility of Van Dyck
	Van Dyck’s ‘Heureuse Négligence’
	Notes
Chapter 5 Van Dyck’s Almost Complete Gentleman
	The Courtly Connoisseur
	Heraldry and Antiquity in Early Baroque Rome
	Narrative and Subplot
	Courtier, Gentleman, Virtuoso
	Notes
Chapter 6 Nobles and Nobilities: English Double Portraits
	Portrayal and Enlightenment
	Le Rouge et le Noir
	Nobility by Halves
	Courtiers, Gentlemen and Friends: Sir Anthony and Mr Porter
	Notes
Conclusion: Nobles and Courtiers
	Depicting Noble Lineage
	Sprezzatura and Nobility: Tensions and Transformations
	Nobility and Its Images, Old and New
	The Noble Self as a Work of Art
	Notes
Bibliography
	Primary sources
	Secondary sources
Index