{"product_id":"the-elizabethan-image-by-roy-strong-9780300260595","title":"The Elizabethan Image","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for the general reader, Roy Strong’s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture synthesises scholarship and research on this subject into a concise introduction to the Elizabethan aesthetic. Strong surveys the entirety of Elizabeth I’s reign from the Procession Picture to the Rainbow Portrait (1600–1602).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA range of social aspects of Elizabethan portraiture are explored, such as patronage, symbolic self-fashioning, Elizabethan pageantry and melancholic humour. Strong reveals the Elizabethan approach to portraiture, while demonstrating a new way to look at these paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring 'middle class’, Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the most fascinating periods of British art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461529223404,"sku":"9780300260595","price":67.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300260595-the-elizabethan-image.jpg?v=1774970642","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-elizabethan-image-by-roy-strong-9780300260595","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}