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Sacred Possessions
This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
This fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors reveals the dynasty’s enduring influence on the arts of Renaissance England and beyond. Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought seismic changes to England that reverberated throughout Europe. They used the arts to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous rule, from Henry VII’s bloody rise to power, through Henry VIII’s breach with the Roman Catholic Church, to the reign of the “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth I. With incisive scholarship and sumptuous new photography, this book explores the extreme politics and outsize personalities of the Tudors, and how they used art in their diplomacy at ho...
The Architecture of Ruins
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and a ruin as creative, interdependent and simultaneous themes within a single building dialectic, addressing temporal and environmental questions in poetic, psychological and practical terms, and stimulating questions of personal and national identity, nature and culture, weather and climate, permanence and impermanence and life and death. Conceiving a building as a dialogue between a monument and a...
Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition
An examination of Inigo Jones's work within the context of the European early seventeenth century classicist movement. Includes a broad survey of contemporary architecture in Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands, as well as a close examination of Jones's buildings.
The Silent Rhetoric of the Body
Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.
John Talman
This work is a full-length study of John Talman, the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th century Britain.
