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Book SynopsisThis book is the first major essay volume in over a decade to focus on Tudor and Jacobean painting. Its interdisciplinary approach reflects the dynamic state of research in the field, utilising a range of methodologies in order to answer key art historical questions about the production and consumption of art in Britain in the 16th and early 17th century. The introduction sets the tone for the interdisciplinary approach that is taken throughout the volume .It brings together a discussion of the context for the production of painted images in Tudor and Jacobean England with a selection of technical images of twenty paintings that span the period and demonstrate the information that can be gained from material analysis of paintings.In further chapters, leading exponents of painting conservation and conservation science discuss the material practices of the period, using and explaining a range of analytical techniques, such as infrared reflectography and dendochronology. Questions of auth
Trade ReviewIt is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the scholarship represented in this volume, the skill with which the essays deal with a large corpus of data in with such clarity and concision, and the attractive presentation of the book as a whole. * Nicholas Grindle, The British Art Journal *
an essential source for those working in the fields of art history, conservation and material science, and of interest to lovers of British Tudor and Stuart painting. * Comments from the Historians of British Art Book Prize Committee *
no redundancy, no repetition here, but rather twenty-four well-written essays, each generously illustrated, to present an organic account of picture making in the English Renaissance. * David Howarth, The Burlington *
Table of ContentsPART I MATERIAL PRACTICES; PART 2 TUDOR AND JACOBEAN PAINTERS AND THEIR WORKSHOPS; PART 3 PATRONAGE, MARKETS AND AUDIENCES
