Missionaries, monks, and marauders : pre-conquest England : the Heptarchy-Edward the Confessor, c. 600-1066 -- Propaganda and power, innovation and influence : Norman art and architecture before and after the conquest : Edward the Confessor and the Norman kings, 1042-1154 -- Variations on an imported theme : early English Gothic under the Angevins and the Plantagenets : Henry II-Henry III, 1154-1272 -- Distinctively and decidedly English : the decorated Gothic style under the Plantagenets : Edward I and Edward II, 1272-1327 -- Particularly, peculiarly, and perpetually English : the Perpendicular Gothic style and Wars of the Roses : the last Plantagenet, the Lancasters, and the Yorks, 1327-1485 -- The art and architecture of magnificence : the Tudor ascendancy : Henry VII, 1485-1509 -- Image making and image breaking : art under the Tudor monarchs : Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I, 1509-1558 -- Gloriana and her court : the art and architecture of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603.
Summary:
"Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in medieval and early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons."--Publisher's Web site.
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